A member of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) lists information the Board needs on a university's structure and operation in reaching fair decisions on such collective bargaining issues as university-wide bargaining units, inclusion of ancillary personnel in faculty units, and determination of supervisory status. Major NLRB university…

Reviews issues and administrative regulations pertaining to affirmative action under Executive Orders 11246 and 11375, extension of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to academic and professional employment, and the Higher Education Ammendments of 1972 extending provisions of the Equal Pay Act of 1963. (JT)

The scope of individual employee rights to engage in activities under the National Labor Relations Act and the concomitant restrictions on employer actions, as interpreted in decisions of the National Labor Relations Board and the courts, are examined on the premise that college administrators are well-advised to understand them. (JT)

Guidelines are given for a college or university in urging its employees to vote for "no union" when a union has demanded recognition as the exclusive bargaining representative of an employee unit. Campaign techniques in a unit of faculty and non-faculty members are discussed separately. (JT)

Thirty-two legislative issues that public institutions should address while devising their legislative programs or reviewing a proposed public employees' collective bargaining bill are presented. The article concludes with a brief discussion of administrative rule-making and other alternatives to legislative treatment of these issues. (LBH)

Viewed from the perspective of administrative law, labor law, or just higher education, the Yeshiva decision does not make sense. It would be appropriate in future litigation to compel the court to do what it refused to do here, that is to address the extent to which the industrial analogy applies to colleges and universities. (MSE)

Montana's university system's experience with collective bargaining within a statutory system, featuring a central management bargaining authority (the board of regents) and multiple bargaining units, is considered. Particular attention is given to how this system has led to greater uniformity of faculty salaries and other conditions of…

Amidst widely disparate predictions as to the effect the Yeshiva decision will have in higher education, traditional legal wisdom would suggest awaiting further NLRB and court decisions for guidance on Yeshiva's impact on different institutions, especially given the various existing and potential unionization arrangements. (MSE)

The Civil Rights and Women's Employment Equity Act of 1991 establishes standards for analyzing employment practice that has disparate impact on minorities and women, allows damages for on-the-job discrimination, lengthens the statute of limitations for claims, and broadens protection for plaintiffs in "mixed-motive" cases. Implications…