Intended primarily for educators, legislators, and the general public in the state of Pennsylvania, this public affairs brochure addresses the question of whether binding arbitration should be legislated in that state as a means of resolving labor disputes between a local school district and its employees. The brochure reviews the history of…

Beginning with a historical review of the evolution of the superintendency in public education, this article focuses on mistakes made by superintendents in the early days of collective bargaining. Their attempts to act as intermediaries between boards and unions resulted in unions taking advantage of them to erode management prerogatives. (TE)

One of the most sensitive issues in K-12 education today is that of professional negotiations between administration and teachers. This paper describes the effects of mediation training on negotiation talks between teachers and management. Teams of representatives from a teachers' union and a board of education participated in a 1-week mediation…

Collective bargaining is a process influenced by many factors. A review of the literature, including an assessment of Dunlop's, Smythe's, Levinson's, and Craig's models, indicates that most models of collective bargaining are partial, dealing only with some of the components of the bargaining process. A model of educational collective bargaining…

Data were collected from teacher and trustee representatives on negotiation teams in 13 school districts in Manitoba (Canada) to determine the effects of collective bargaining on the relationship between teachers and boards. Differences were found to center on the issue of authority in such areas as teaching conditions, staffing procedures, and…

Discusses two new challenges that face faculty bargaining organizations: first, the Supreme Court's decision in "NLRB vs. Yeshiva University" that faculties exercising power over governance of their institutions have managerial status that excludes them from protection under the National Labor Relations Act, and, second, the current…

Reports the results of a survey of teachers and school board members in Virginia on their opinions concerning collective bargaining and teacher involvement in militant activities or in political activism to achieve economic goals. The data revealed almost complete disagreement between the two groups. (Author/WD)

School-based management (SBM) and its counterpart, shared decision making, raise traditional questions about power, representativeness, decentralization, and professionalism. This paper turns to history to provide a framework for untangling the issues that have come to the fore in current debates about power and shared school governance. In a…

Changes in production systems have altered the interdependence between workers and management. New patterns of interdependence brought new responses, e.g., workers formed unions, and management turned to the human relations movement to secure voluntary employee cooperation. When voluntary compliance proved inadequate, collective bargaining and…

Three aspects of the collective bargaining process are detrimental to school district governance: (1) teachers' associations gain decision-making authority over management prerogatives; (2) union demands illegally infringe on statutory duties of school districts; and (3) the conflict between laypersons and professionals for control of the schools…

Results of a study involving 450 teachers in three California school districts show that two sets of standards exist for judging the effectiveness of teacher unions. For union leaders, legitimacy means keeping promises to teachers by winning concessions from management and, at the same time, working toward a more credible and cooperative…

This paper proposes an analytical perspective that illuminates the major variables in the establishment of labor relations policy in education. It describes the relationships that exist between collective bargaining, the pursuit of the public interest, and the protection of client interests in the processes of schooling. The anslysis is based on…

Examination of the scope of management prerogatives in negotiation raises the question of available guidelines for school boards. State legislation indicates that the scope of bargaining ranges from narrow restrictions to broad capabilities. Management prerogatives include the power to oversee budgets and hire and dismiss employees. School…