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Hunter, Tera W. – OAH Magazine of History, 1999
Describes a lesson that focuses on the strike organized by the African-American washerwomen in Atlanta (Georgia) in order to protect their autonomy and increase their pay. Explains that the laundry workers' protest contrasted the image of complacent Southern workers depicted by the city's business and political elite. (CMK)
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Females, Group Activities
Loehr, Peter; Livingston-Webber, Joan – Illinois Trustee, 1992
In 1991-92, there were two strikes at community colleges in Illinois. Interviews were conducted with representatives of the faculty unions and management at both colleges, regarding the relationship between negotiation processes and strikes. Study findings included the following: (1) both management and union spokespersons felt that strikes…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Budgeting, College Administration, College Planning
Van Tine, Warren R. – 1993
While the building and printing industries flourished in pre-Civil War Columbus, manufacturing languished. The manufacturing base grew and diversified from 1820 to 1850. Few unions emerged, and those that did seldom lasted long. During the Civil War business and manufacturing increased to serve the camps and prisons established in Columbus. When…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Labor Conditions, Labor Demands
Block, Richard N.; Wolkinson, Benjamin W. – 1989
An examination of how employers and employees may be encouraged to adapt to changing economic conditions through innovation and cooperation rather than conflict indicates that the system of dispute resolution in the United States contains substantial disincentives to resolving disputes through negotiation and substantial incentives to resolving…
Descriptors: Adults, Collective Bargaining, Conflict Resolution, Cooperation
Cooke, William N. – 1990
This book examines the potential benefits and costs of labor-management cooperation and factors that influence these potential benefits and costs. The analyses presented are based on a variety of secondary data sources, as well as data from nationwide surveys of plant managers, their local union leader counterparts, and executives of parent…
Descriptors: Adults, Collective Bargaining, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices
Walker, James R. – 1988
The 1987 NFL players' strike provided an opportunity to evaluate the importance of media gratification and viewing involvement in the development of audience reactions to a major sports labor conflict that produced gratification denial. Two groups of viewers of professional football--183 adult males in the Memphis, Tennessee area, interviewed by…
Descriptors: Athletics, Audience Analysis, Broadcast Television, Mass Media Effects
Levin-Epstein, Michael; And Others – 1980
The annual special report on teachers and labor relations for the 1979-80 academic year discusses teacher organizing, collective bargaining and negotiations, contract settlements, strikes, economic issues, legal developments, and state legislative activities. A table of court cases relating to labor relations in education is also included.…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Court Litigation
Indiana Univ., Bloomington. Midwest Center for Public Sector Labor Relations. – 1975
In the face of a high degree of legislative activity concerning public sector labor relations in the Midwest, this guide was prepared to familiarize practitioners with such legislation enacted as of May 1, 1975, in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. This legislation concerns state employees, fire fighters, municipal…
Descriptors: Administrators, Collective Bargaining, Employer Employee Relationship, Fire Fighters
Stanton, L. Patrick – 1977
An objective record is presented of the processes that led to faculty collective bargaining at Chicago State University (CSU), based principally on the published proceedings of the Board of Governors of State Colleges and Universities of the State of Illinois. The study presents chronologically the official record of the CSU faculty-governing…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Educational History, Employer Employee Relationship
Berube, Maurice R. – 1966
The unionization of teachers has had consequences beyond traditional trade union objectives and now encompasses educational and sociopolitical goals. The American Federation of Teachers and the United Federation of Teachers of New York have used their organized power to influence school administration policies, to better the educational…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Educational Improvement, Educational Programs, Political Power
Johnson, Herbert F. – 1968
Ways must be sought to make rising teacher militancy benefit education rather than harm it. In this pursuit, State boards of education should (1) help school officials understand that a fundamental change is taking place in their employer-employee relationship, (2) consider whether they wish to support State laws forbidding collective negotiations…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Collective Bargaining, Public Schools, School Districts
Robertson, Neville L. – 1968
This 715-item bibliography on teacher-school board negotiations updates the earlier bibliography by Owen G. Arnold and John Gordon Taylor published by Phi Delta Kappa in 1967. This revision contains more than double the number of items which appeared in the earlier publication, indicating the expansion of the field. Items cited, dating from 1956…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Employer Employee Relationship
Levy, Harold – 1975
The first known analysis of a substantial number of arbitration awards in higher education is presented in an effort to determine whether arbitrators have confined their awards within the contract limitations. All of the arbitration awards generated by the four-year colleges of the State University of New York as well as the awards of the…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Decision Making
Phelan, Daniel J. – 1975
Attitudes concerning faculty unionization have an impact on its rejection or acceptance and its subsequent implementation. This study was conducted to determine the level of agreement among faculty, student services staff, and students before major collective bargaining activities, such as a run-off election, take place. Assessed are attitudes…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Decision Making, Fringe Benefits, Grievance Procedures
Supreme Court of the U. S., Washington, DC. – 1976
This publication presents the full text of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Hortonville Joint School District No. 1 et al. v. Hortonville Education Association et al., as written by Chief Justice Burger. Also included is the text of the dissenting opinion written by Justice Stewart, as well as a brief syllabus that summarizes the major issues…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Collective Bargaining, Constitutional Law, Due Process
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