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le Roux, Adré; Marais, Nalize – Africa Education Review, 2013
Almost annually, South African education is troubled by strike action and the temporary discontinuation of teaching and learning. While teachers claim their constitutionally protected right to participate in strikes, learners' equally constitutionally protected right to education is violated. Not only is a tension between these two rights…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Ethics, Teacher Responsibility
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2012
Chicago teachers voted last week to suspend a 7-day-old strike, sending some 350,000 students back to the classroom and paving the way for the teaching force to vote on a tentative contract. But for many in the Windy City, the contract has raised another potentially tall hurdle: how the cash-strapped district will manage to pay for it. District…
Descriptors: Unions, Boards of Education, Teacher Strikes, Teaching Experience
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Reichman, Roxana G.; Artzi, Shlomit – Qualitative Report, 2012
The authors have investigated teachers' reactions towards an imposed reform initiated by the Israeli Ministry of Education in collaboration with one of two teachers' unions based on the messages and letters sent by high school teachers to an internet forum during a teachers' strike which took place between October and December of 2007. This study…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Unions, Internet, Educational Change
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Freedman, Eric B.; Roberts, Scott L. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2013
Two articles are presented in this column. "Life in an Auto Factory: Simulating how Labor and Management Interact" by Eric B. Freedman describes a classroom simulation of management and labor relations in an auto factory. Classroom handouts are included. The next article, "Women of Action and County Names: Mary Musgrove County--Why…
Descriptors: Simulation, Classroom Techniques, Program Descriptions, Labor Relations
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2012
A strike last week by some 29,000 teachers in Chicago pushed long-simmering tensions over deeply divisive school improvement ideas--including changes in teacher evaluation and the takeover or closure of underperforming schools--into the national spotlight. A framework for a tentative agreement emerged last Friday, and the union's house of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Standardized Tests, Unions, Educational Change
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Wisdom, Sherrie, Ed.; Leavitt, Lynda, Ed.; Bice, Cynthia, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
In comparing one public school to another, discussions frequently include talk concerning the socio economics of a school or district, which then leads to talk about the advantages that one socioeconomic setting has over another. Educators tend to agree that low academic achievement frequently associated with a low socioeconomic status is a…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Social Influences, Racial Discrimination, African American Students
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Shenkar, Miriam; Shenkar, Oded – Comparative Education Review, 2011
Teachers often embed their labor demands within a broader context to claim high moral ground and build community support. We analyze a recent teachers' strike in Israel, looking at how the strike played out in a country where the challenges of globalization collided with a socialist legacy in the face of an existential threat. The analysis reveals…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Global Approach, Labor Demands, Foreign Countries
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Barnetson, Bob – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2010
In 2002, approximately two thirds of school teachers in the Canadian province of Alberta went on strike. Drawing on media, government and union documents, this case study reveals some contours of the political economy of labor relations in education that are normally hidden from view. Among these features are that the state can react to worker…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Working Class, Labor Relations, Labor
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Bousquet, Marc – Academe, 2010
The academic year began with a bang last fall at the University of California (UC). A series of bangs, actually, featuring a united front of students, staff, and faculty in a coordinated series of walkouts and strikes across the system's ten campuses. The target of their outrage was a series of draconian layoffs, wage cuts, and drastic tuition…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Political Attitudes, Governance, Job Layoff
Blodgett, Bridget M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
For the first time in the history of collective action, the offline world has experienced a virtually organized and enacted union strike. While this was the first publicly noticed political action in a virtual world, others have been going on for several years now. As virtual worlds continue to grow in popularity, this type of protest of action…
Descriptors: Strikes, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Social Action
Leung, Trini – Albert Shanker Institute, 2008
This report presents accounts based on first-hand interviews conducted by Han Dongfang, China's leading labor rights advocate, with workers across China. Han Dongfang was a leader of the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation (BWAF), an independent labor group organized during the Tiananmen Square protests. Han today carries on the fight from Hong…
Descriptors: Labor Demands, Labor, Foreign Countries, Radio
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Berkovich, Izhak – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: Teachers' resistance to educational reform has been explored, with special attention given to the reasons driving opposition and the resistance practices employed inside school walls. These studies have not, however, examined the agenda setting strategy employed by teachers opposing new policy on the national level, nor has any extensive…
Descriptors: Teacher Strikes, Agenda Setting, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Meredith, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the strength of correlation between union-administrator relationships and principals' opportunities to create a positive school culture for learning during intent to strike conditions. The goal of this positivist study was to allow for an exploration of the extent to which…
Descriptors: Correlation, Unions, School Culture, Principals
Educational Service Region of Cook County, Chicago, IL. – 1973
Summarized testimony heard at the public hearings held by the Educational Service Region of Cook County (March 1, 1973) is presented in this document. In addition to being printed in narrative form, the comments are also analyzed in tables according to content and response to key issues centered around collective bargaining. An opening letter by…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Grievance Procedures, Strikes, Teacher Strikes
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Irtwange, S. V.; Orsaah, S. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2010
The study was undertaken with the objective of assessing groups influence on management style as related to University governance with University of Agriculture, Makurdi as a case study from academic staff perspective. The management style of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Agriculture, Makurdi between the period September 3, 1996 to…
Descriptors: Resumes (Personal), Governance, Program Effectiveness, Sampling
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