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Crimmins, Gail – Gender and Education, 2022
Despite decades of Equal Opportunity legislation, gender inequality persists in Australian universities. This is largely due to the shaping of universities by new market principles, discourses of individualisation that render the asymmetry of gender relations invisible, and privileging masculine epistemologies. Concurrently, industrial relations…
Descriptors: Feminism, Gender Issues, Sex Fairness, Higher Education
Dolph, David A. – School Business Affairs, 2009
In times of limited resources, the likelihood of difficult negotiations between labor and management may increase even in the best of school districts. The negotiation process can range from traditional to positional to competitive to a more collaborative and cooperative interest-based approach. The most productive approach is a matter of debate…
Descriptors: School Business Officials, Employer Employee Relationship, Work Environment, Negotiation Agreements
Boyle, George V. – 1989
Labor unions in the U.S.S.R.--having emerged in Russia about 100 years after U.S. labor unions and been called by Lenin the "shock troops of the revolution"--do not much resemble their U.S. counterparts. Union members, including factory managers, constitute 99.3 percent of the work force, and place of employment or profession determines…
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries, Labor Education, Labor Relations
Guasconi, Maria Eleonora – European Journal: Vocational Training, 2004
The question of European trade unions' approach towards vocational training is an interesting example of a broader issue, involving both the role played by non-governmental actors in shaping the social dimension of the integration process, and the need to develop a social dialogue in the Community. In this context, the establishment of Cedefop in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Public Policy, Unions
Brown, Kara, Comp. – 2002
This paper examines labor issues that affect school employees. It is divided into four sections: school reform; teacher compensation; scope of bargaining; and collaborative (nonadversarial) bargaining. The longest section, which focuses on various reform movements in the schools, examines accountability, school choice, and the questions…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Compensation (Remuneration), Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
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Sundstrom, Eric; And Others – American Psychologist, 1990
Explores applications of work teams and proposes an analytic framework for team effectiveness. Presents the following applications: (1) advice and involvement; (2) production and service; (3) projects and development; and (4) action and negotiation. Depicts team effectiveness as interdependent with organizational context, boundaries, and team…
Descriptors: Group Dynamics, Industrial Psychology, Job Performance, Labor Relations
Cozza, Richard J., Jr. – American School Board Journal, 1992
The Ashtabula County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities in Ohio has developed an alternative to arbitration. The local conciliation committee, composed of representatives of both management and labor, plus a nonvoting, objective adviser, is a third level in the grievance procedure. Benefits include resolution of conflicts…
Descriptors: Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Committees, Cost Effectiveness
Kusnet, David – American Educator, 1999
Discusses old and new employer-employee problems within various high-tech companies giving rise to a variety of employee organizations. Examines union building at IBM and looks at the employee group founded by Microsoft employees. Concludes by focusing on the issue of new unions for the new economy. (SM)
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Computers, Employees, Employer Employee Relationship
Santiago, Gloria Bonilla – Migration World, 1986
Details the history and activities in New Jersey of "El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agricolos" (CATA) or Farmworkers' Support Committee. The Committee was founded in 1979 to help Puerto Rican migrant workers who suffer from social and political isolation and are denied basic rights. Successes, goals, and problems are noted. (PS)
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Rights, Disadvantaged Environment, Labor Demands
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Farnham, David – Higher Education Review, 1991
This article records and assesses developments in relations between employers and academic staff in British polytechnic institutes and colleges. It focuses on the conditions of service and contracts of employment for lecturers. It also analyzes to what extent these issues are symptomatic of a shift in the employee relations strategy of schools…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Contracts, Faculty College Relationship, Foreign Countries
Dongfang, Han – American Educator, 2002
Presents comments spoken at a human rights conference by Han Dongfang, a Chinese activist who was jailed after an attempt to organize China's first independent union from a tent in Tiananmen Square during the democracy movement. Today, he is barred from the mainland but works from Hong Kong through Radio Free Asia. Comments focus on foreign…
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Disobedience, Communism, Foreign Countries
Derber, Charles – New Directions for Continuing Education, 1987
A team of faculty and advanced graduate students from Boston College developed a new educational partnership with labor unions to help combat problems of industrial dislocation and upheaval. The group worked with five different union locals experiencing serious problems associated with foreign competition and new technology. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competition, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Eiger, Norman – New York University Education Quarterly, 1982
Describes Sweden's massive effort to bring democracy to the workplace through programs of worker education and participation in industrial decision making. Stresses that the United States can learn much from the Swedish workplace education experience. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Employer Employee Relationship, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries
Gray, Charles D. – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1993
This article profiles Han Dongfang of China, winner of the 1993 George Meany Human Rights Award given by the AFL-CIO. An organizer of the first democratic labor organization in the People's Republic of China and advocate of individual freedom, Dongfang has faced persecution in China and remains a stateless person. (SLD)
Descriptors: Activism, Biographies, Civil Liberties, Community Leaders
Bureau of Labor-Management Relations and Cooperative Programs (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1991
This booklet synthesizes symposium discussions exploring how to transform organizations to compete in the rapidly changing world economy. First, the new cooperative organization is defined. Next, practical advice on making partnership organizations a reality is summarized. Suggestions include appealing to people's self-interest; coming up with…
Descriptors: Adults, Business Communication, Career Education, Collegiality
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