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Armistead, Lew – 1978
This guide is intended to help educational administrators implement a sound public relations program during a school strike. Early preparation and professionalism are stressed as keys to success. Communications with employees, news media representatives, parents, and community residents are discussed. Communication techniques that are explained…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Role, Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Secondary Education
Goergen, Joseph H.; Keough, John J. – 1967
This study analyzes the patterns of 40 teacher strikes between 1955 and 1965 by looking at (1) the issues and demands and (2) the outcomes and settlements. It is hypothesized that (1) teacher strikes fall into discernible patterns, (2) functional relationships exist between certain strike issues and outcomes and the strike itself, (3) strikes can…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Collective Bargaining, Disqualification, Geographic Distribution
Nolte, M. Chester, Ed. – 1968
Proceedings of an inservice conference on teacher militancy and collective bargaining are reported. Section one presents resumes of speeches delivered by experts from the fields of law, business, labor arbitration, and professional negotiations. Topics of the speeches include new developments in professional negotiations, arbitration in public…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Boards of Education, Collective Bargaining, Conference Reports
Rehmus, Charles M.; Wilner, Evan – 1968
A sample of Michigan cities is the basis for an evaluation of the economic benefits of collective bargaining to teachers and the economic impact of bargaining upon the school districts that employ and negotiate with them. The study's conclusions include: (1) Bargaining produced pay increases averaging 10 to 20 percent higher than teachers would…
Descriptors: Class Size, Collective Bargaining, Economic Research, Equalization Aid
Rubinstein, Annette T., Ed. – 1970
This collection of articles revolves around the struggle for full racial equality through community control of schools by the black and Puerto Rican people of New York City. The opening chapter describes the city Board of Education's deliberate policy of intensifying and consolidating segregation during the very years when it was most volubly…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Power, Black Students, Board of Education Role
Nolte, M. Chester – 1970
This paper traces the status of collective bargaining in education from its origins to the present. Following a brief history of collective bargaining efforts, a comparison of the traditional and the collective-bargaining approaches to school personnel administration is presented. An extensive analysis of State collective-bargaining statutes and a…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Board of Education Policy, Collective Bargaining, Court Litigation
Flygare, Thomas J. – 1976
This is a guidebook for teachers in the public elementary and secondary schools on the subject of their legal rights. While public education is a state function, governed by laws, authority is delegated to local school boards. Areas in which a teacher may come in conflict with the governing body of the school are described. Freedom of speech, in…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Civil Liberties, Collective Bargaining, Court Litigation
Fox, Warren H.; Earl-Novell, Sarah L. – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2004
The purpose of this report is to better determine the level of general public trust in public higher education and the content of published articles in the press that may influence and reflect public confidence. By conducting a six-month media scan of four California newspapers, an overview is provided of the key concerns and issues facing higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Education, Trust (Psychology), Mass Media Effects
Barron, Daniel, Ed.; Summers, F. William, Ed. – School Library Media Quarterly, 1983
Six articles present information on issues and trends affecting public employees and developments in collective bargaining specific to education, guidelines for supervisors (and others) involved in the negotiations process, suggestions for effective use of interpersonal communication in negotiating, and a description of the unique role of women in…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Elementary Secondary Education, Employed Women
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Zahavi, Gerald – Journal of American History, 1996
Provides a fascinating look at the ideological and cultural schisms that developed between the communist party and local trade unions in Schenectady, New York. By the 1950s trade unions had become more conservative while the communist party championed the rights of women and blacks. This split debilitated the communist party. (MJP)
Descriptors: Agenda Setting, Communism, Conservatism, Employer Employee Relationship
O'Connell, Mary – Equity and Choice, 1991
The fall 1987 Chicago (Illinois) teachers' strike, documentation of the systems' problems, a movement to return local control, a history of organizing, the fall 1986 Education Summit, and skepticism about the board's ability to engineer change led to the school system's restructuring through the Chicago Public Schools Reform Act. (JB)
Descriptors: Activism, Boards of Education, Change Agents, Community Action
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Schneirov, Richard – OAH Magazine of History, 1999
Highlights the events of the 1894 Pullman strike and boycott that pitted the American Railway Union against the combined forces of the federal government, railroad companies, and the Pullman Sleeping Car Company. States that the Pullman strike was a devastating setback for industrial unionism, but is the most well-known of all U.S. strikes. (CMK)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Consciousness Raising, Government Role, Labor Demands
Grayson, J. Paul – 1997
In the fifth and sixth weeks of a faculty strike at York University (Ontario), a survey was undertaken to assess student perceptions of the strike, its benefits, and its costs. Respondents were 502 randomly selected full-time undergraduate students in several disciplines. Survey questions were developed in student focus groups. The report…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Activism, Anxiety, College Environment
Caldwell, William E.; Daywalt, Ralph E. – 1983
Two private-sector models of organizational conflict that are appropriate and adaptable to the public sector are the bargaining and bureaucratic models. While the bargaining model covers conflicts among interest groups in competition for scarce resources, the bureaucratic model covers superior-subordinate conflicts. In the public education sector,…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bureaucracy, Collective Bargaining, Conflict
Julius, Daniel J., Ed. – 1984
American higher education collective bargaining is addressed in 21 essays by administrators and academicians who are actively engaged in the process. Titles and authors are as follows: "The Context of Collective Bargaining in American Colleges and Universities" (Kenneth P. Mortimer); "Collective Bargaining in the Multi-Campus System" (Richard E.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, College Faculty
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