Reviews the role and the accomplishments of the United States Department of Labor in its 75 years of existence. Describes the department's establishment during an era of heavy union activity. Discusses changes in demographics of the labor force, conditions and standards, the work experience, and job placement. (CH)

The New York newspaper strike of 1978 was the direct result of a series of events that started in 1923 when the pressmen's union established a system that provided a minimum fixed number of pressmen per press unit and legitimized a loose labor pool. From that time, the number of pressmen increased through family-dominated union management that…

Argues that present methods of public-sector collective bargaining, modeled as they are after private-sector bilateral negotiations, do not adequately reflect the pluralistic nature of the many publics affected by such negotiations. Describes four multilevel models for pluralist bargaining and calls for formalized public participation in public…

The directory begins with a summary of unionization activities among college faculty for the 1989 calendar year. It is concluded that there were no significant events in academic collective bargaining during the year, with faculty unions concentrating resources on servicing their members and preserving affiliations. The faculty contracts and…

This newsletter issue provides an analysis of faculty union organizing and agent elections involving the American Association of University Professors, the National Education Association, and the American Federation of Teachers and their local affiliates. Activity levels of independent unions, "no-agent" elections, decertifications, and…

Analyzes racial and public policy implications of establishing, within a new desegregated metropolitan school district, a uniform salary schedule for teachers who formerly worked for eleven independent school districts located in the same county. (Author/GC)

This report presents a history and overview of the collective bargaining process and trade unions in the Federal Republic of Germany. Topics covered include the following: (1) social partners--trade unions and the employers' associations; (2) the history of free collective bargaining; (3) free collective bargaining after World War II; (4) the…