Suggests eight ways in which boards of education can select successful negotiating teams. (DS)

The principal must be given authority and must be involved in the process of decision making if he is to fulfill his leadership role in the school. The author delineates the principal's role in the legislative, bargaining, and grievance processes, and touches on the principal's role during strikes. (Editor/JB)

There is much unrest among Mexican-American students in Los Angeles because the state has not adhered to the 1849 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo which says bilingual and bicultural education will be compulsory for Mexican-Americans. (Author/AF)

Outlines in question-and-answer form the main issues of the Newark, New Jersey teacher strike, early 1971. (MB)

The 1980-81 Polish upheavals included proposals for dramatic change in higher education. Taking advantage of momentum for change created by Solidarity and using strikes, academics, and students produced temporary changes sometimes representing complete policy reversals. Possible directions for Eastern European socialist higher education are…

Conducted voluntary meetings with head nurses and supervisors at the University of Michigan Hospitals to encourage expression of feelings about a nurses' strike, and gain an objective understanding of decision-making struggles involved. Presented techniques and practice opportunities for supervisors to promote resolution of interpersonal rifts and…

It is in the public interest to provide statutory checks on the excessive power abruptly attained by teachers' unions. (Author)

The adversarial positions fostered by the "win-lose" atmosphere of negotiations can carry into other aspects of the work environment and hamper the problem solving that teachers and supervisors must do together. (Author)

Discusses organizational strength, teacher strikes, collective bargaining and negotiations, and political action as forms of teacher militancy that are linked with increasing professionalism. Concludes that teachers have been able to improve their professional status in recent years largely because of growing activism. (Author/GC)

To move education forward, the United States needs teachers willing to challenge traditional teachers' associations. Independent teachers' associations, most of which began in the 1950s, were started primarily in response to compulsory union dues, monopoly bargaining, strikes, and the union's overtly political agenda. They support local control,…

This paper presents findings of a study that examined the effects of two dispute resolution procedures--fact-finding and compulsory final-offer, issue-by-issue interest arbitration--on teachers' wages, fringe benefits, and language provisions. New Jersey uses fact-finding dispute resolution, in which a recommendation for settlement is submitted to…

A database on Labor Relations in Education used to prepare several sections of this report is described, and datafiles are listed along with access information and several examples of information that can be obtained from the database. This special report includes exclusive interviews with top officials of the two major teacher unions--the…

A strike by teachers in the David Douglas School District of suburban Portland, Oregon, in 1978 lasted only a week and was unsuccessful in obtaining contract concessions. This document describes how the district's administration, board, building principals, and public relations specialist cooperated as a team to limit the strike's effects. Key…

Results of a survey on unions representing clerical workers at the largest public and private U.S. universities are summarized. The incidence of strike activity among these unions and the degree of organizing activity in universities where clerical workers are not represented by unions were determined. It was found that most of the unionization of…