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Barasch, Frances K. – Change, 1981
A new source of students, workers eligible for tuition aid plans offered as incentives or negotiated by unions, is seen as a significant development for higher education. Some worker education programs are described. Low participation rates are seen as the result of lack of information. (MLW)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Educational Demand, Extension Education
Douglas, Joel M.; Sandorfy, Michael – 1992
This publication is a status report on faculty contracts and bargaining agents in higher education in the United States for 1991. An introduction summarizes activity across the nation including agents elected, independent agents, decertification, strikes, legislation, first contracts signed, and demographic analysis. A table of faculty contracts…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Faculty Organizations, Higher Education
Hagglund, George – 1989
The history of the recent development of worker education in Australia and New Zealand shows that, in just the past 15 years or so, very significant improvements have occurred in delivery of trade union education. To a very large degree these developments took place because of the existence of a close relationship between the union movement and…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Educational Finance, Employer Employee Relationship, Federal Programs
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Washington, DC. – 1987
This document traces the U.S. labor movement's history, documents its achievements, and describes its goals. The labor movement played a central role in the elevation of the U.S. standard of living through benefits negotiated by unions, such as vacations with pay, pensions, health and welfare protection, and grievance and arbitration procedures.…
Descriptors: Economics Education, History, Labor Conditions, Labor Demands
Merz, Harold E.; Bhaerman, Robert D. – 1987
This student guide provides instructional materials for seven units in the area of labor studies. Unit topics are introduction to labor unions, who labor in America is, collective bargaining: democracy in the workplace, preserving workers' rights: safeguards in the system, partners in education and training, partners in public service: labor…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Career Education, Collective Bargaining, Community Services
Mac Vean, Donald S. – 1982
Data on selected characteristics of union and nonunion members of the Western Illinois University faculty for the fall semester 1981 are presented and analyzed. For each department and college, information is presented on nonunion and union members as follows: number and percentage of faculty, sex, tenure status, term number, doctoral degree,…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Educational Background
Worthen, Dick – 1979
The United Faculty (UF), representing instructors at Diablo Valley College (DVC), has failed to recognize the special problems of collective bargaining in the academic setting and has instead employed a muscular unionism which limits dialog among teachers, administrators, and trustees. This failure is reflected in current collective bargaining…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Community Colleges
BAKER, JAMES; REYNOLDS, O.W. – 1966
EDUCATION AND TRAINING, BEGINNING 18 MONTHS BEFORE THE OPENING IN 1962 OF THE NEW SPENCER WORKS STEEL PLANT OF RICHARD THOMAS AND BALDWINS, LTD., IN MONMOUTHSHIRE, ENGLAND, INVOLVED ALL LEVELS OF PERSONNEL. (SOME PROGRAMS, FOR EXAMPLE, FOR CLERICALS, WERE DELAYED UNTIL AFTER THE OPENING.) THE UNDEVELOPED SITE, RADICALLY NEW EQUIPMENT AND…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Automation, Engineering, Industrial Training
World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, Morges (Switzerland). – 1979
It is vitally important for workers in all regions of the world to form unions and to exercise the rights and discharge the responsibilities which membership involves. The right to organize or join a union is essential not only for the welfare of the individual worker, or for all of those belonging to the union, but also for the welfare of society…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Developing Nations, Elementary Secondary Education, Global Approach
Gilliland, Hugh Ronald – 1967
The study sought to: (1) ascertain the attitudes of educators, students, and parents in slum, suburban, and cross-sectional areas, toward blue-collar occupations and vocational education, (2) identify significant differences between attitudes of groups with union and non-union backgrounds, and (3) identify any existing relationship between general…
Descriptors: Blue Collar Occupations, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations, Environmental Influences
Collinwood, Dean W. – 1976
This analysis presents a view of the current status of unionism based on statistics reported in the "Chronicle of Higher Education" and from the author's own calculations. It is shown that each year for at least three years, unions have held more elections on public and on four-year campuses than on private and two-year campuses. Each year the…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Community Colleges
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Williams, Gaye – Library Trends, 2002
Considers the impact of services public libraries provide to union members, particularly access to computers, based on experiences with the SEIU (Service Employees International Union). Topics include training; resources for families; education; and Locals Online, a program that provides training and Web content to SEIU local unions. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Access to Information, Family Needs, Labor Education
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Scully-Russ, Ellen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: Responding to the recent split in the US labor movement, this paper aims to argue that learning must become an integral part of a progressive union devoted to organizing. Design/methodology/approach: This paper traces the evolution of vocational education in US industrial unions and critiques it in light of the challenges facing labor…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Labor Relations, Labor, Unions
American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, Washington, DC. – 1990
On October 27, 1990, Congress enacted comprehensive federal child care legislation targeted toward low-income workers and a broad expansion of assistance to parents through the earned income tax credit. This guide alerts union members to the benefits that are now available under the new law: the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. The guide…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Income
Koppich, Julia E.; Kerchner, Charles T. – 1990
Since 1987, 12 California school districts and their teachers' unions have experimented with a new form of labor accord called an Educational Policy Trust Agreement. The project helps teachers, as represented by their unions, and school management to reach agreements on issues that are not included within the scope of traditional collective…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Labor Demands
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