The New York City school teachers strike of 1968 was the outcome of a conflict which had been growing since the establishment of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment in decentralized school administration. This conflict developed over the Local Governing Board's desire to clearly establish its authority to hire and fire employees of the district,…

Three labor relations specialists present their views of the collective negotiation process in public education, based largely on their collective experience with educational negotiations in the State of Michigan. The first chapter, prepared by Charles T. Schmidt, Jr., is an overview of collective negotiations in education and includes a general…

This sourcebook is designed to be useful to school administrators, teacher association representatives, and school board members, in that it presents in a systematic fashion current selected sources of information on conducting negotiations in education. The citations are according to: (1) governmental and education association sponsored economic…

This study was designed to investigate the impact that collective negotiations have had on teachers' salaries in Ohio; and the relationships between the incidence of work stoppages and the characteristics of Ohio school districts. Since the focus of this was twofold, it was found necessary to employ several statistical techniques to accomplish the…

Ocean Hill-Brownsville was one of the three projects established by the New York City Board of Education to experiment with the reality of community participation. In time, much of the early optimism of community planners was dampened. The Board of Education's procrastination and its unwillingness to develop guidelines prior to the initiation of…

This report contains digests of 179 court decisions covering legal issues of particular importance to teachers. The case digests are arranged under (1) certification and eligibility, (2) salaries, (3) contracts, (4) tenure, (5) school desegregation, (6) civil rights, (7) teacher/school board negotiation, (8) leaves of absence, (9) liability for…

During a faculty strike at York University (Ontario), two telephone surveys were undertaken to assess its academic and economic impact on students. The first survey, taken during the fifth and sixth weeks of the strike, used a survey instrument that reflected issues raised in student focus groups. The second survey was undertaken five months after…

Spells out some tough guidelines for keeping school boards in charge of public schools. Suggests including in contracts a strong management rights clause, a no-strike clause, cancellation of all bargaining rights during the term of the contract, and specific and detailed restrictions on grievance procedures. (Author/JM)

Examines administrator attitudes toward faculty collective bargaining as determined by a survey of the presidents, chancellors, and chief executive officers of the community and junior colleges in Texas. Analyzes personal and institutional factors related to collective bargaining formalization. (JP)

Written by a negotiator for the Chicago City College Board approximately a year after the signing of the first faculty collective bargaining agreement at the college on May 2, 1967, this paper reviews the climate and key elements of the collective bargaining process. First, an overview is provided of the negotiation process, indicating the…

Guidelines are given to school board members and administrators on using advocacy communications in dealing with teachers' strikes. Strikes are described as staged media events and extensions of the collective bargaining process. An educational association's "game plan" is outlined which summarizes the five central themes used by most…

The model presented in this monograph was designed to aid state and district school systems and college administrators in dealing with the challenge of faculty collective bargaining in Washington community colleges. First, Chapter 1 provides a historical analysis of the laws and statutes relating to negotiations in the state's community colleges.…

The usefulness of a theory of social movement within organizations is tested within the California State University and Colleges. The drive for implementation of collective bargaining in the system is viewed as a form of intraorganizational insurgency, a collective action to improve the position of a discontented lower-level group, in conflict…

Research symposia were held at the 1977, 1978, and 1979 annual conferences of the National Middle School Association. This document reproduces 14 selected studies relating to middle schools from the papers presented during those symposia. Topics covered are effects of teaching behaviors; teacher-managed inservice training; relationships among…

Collective bargaining is merely a process for reconciling the expectations of two parties in order to arrive at a written contract, according to the author. His paper describes the bargaining process, following chronologically its major steps. The paper begins with a discussion of the recognition and certification of teacher unions. The next…