The resolution of public sector negotiations impasses by a vote of the electorate is presented as a new solution that is the best available in teachers' union disputes with administration. It puts the accountability in the hands of the people who must live with the decision. (MD)

Examines Ohio's Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act from a union perspective and argues that the act has advanced the cause of "orderly and constructive relationships" between Ohio's public employers and their employees. (MLF)

Introduces the issues involved in public employee strikes and the questions relating to liability for damage claims by students. (MD)

Reviews the question of damage suits in public employee strikes from a management perspective and through review of court cases. Includes discussion of the right to sue and the theories of recovery. The public may successfully sue for damages from unlawful public employee strikes. (MD)

Trends toward greater teacher unionization will increase in the 1980s, as teachers react to economic pressures springing from school closures, declining enrollments, and attempts to fund private schools with public taxes. Educational unions will become more politically active, to protect teachers' union and civil rights. (RW)

The growing trend of judicial support allowing employers and third parties to seek damages in public employee strikes is reviewed from the union perspective. Includes a discussion of the historical trend of liability theories. This area of public sector labor relations law is developing with no clear national trend. (MD)

Labor relations between schools and their employees are likely to experience continued change in the 1980s, affecting not only the legislative framework for collective bargaining in the public sector, but also union representation struggles, job security, bargaining issues, layoff procedures, and arbitration. (RW)