The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Randi Weingarten, is putting the sensitive issue of due process on the education reform table, with a pledge to work with districts to streamline the often-cumbersome procedures for dismissing teachers who fail to improve their performance after receiving help and support. She has also…

According to best estimates, some 800,000 faculty members, close to two-thirds of the total nationwide, are adjunct, "contingent," or "lecturer." The severity of their plight, rapidly worsening in today's economic crisis, intersects the interrelated domains of human rights, fair employment, and the future of higher education. In those areas where…

The National Labor Relations Board asserted jurisdiction over nonprofit colleges and universities in a landmark decision involving Syracuse and Cornell Universities, which will now permit collective negotiations where jurisdictional standards are met by employes, including faculty. (Author/Editor)

The five issues presented here are keys to understanding how collective bargaining affects colleges and universities. (MM)

Reviews the resolutions and recommendations issuing from the 1980 conference of the International Labour Organisation. New standards were proposed in the areas of age and employment discrimination, workplace safety and health, collective bargaining, and safeguards for workers with family responsibilities. (SK)

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)

In depth examination of the recent National Labor relations Board ruling in the Cornell case and suggestions for the administrator in handling the upsurge of union organizing on campus that will probably result from the decision. (Editor)

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)

After reviewing the existing legislative and judicial controls that currently provide a legal framework for the exercise of representational interests in the field of higher education, the authors discuss the potential and need for greater government involvement to provide uniform direction and protection of collective bargaining rights. (JT)

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…

Composition teachers should combine self-identification and direct political action by belonging to the labor movement and working collectively toward expanding its range and power and consequently their own. Previously, members of the composition faculty have been involved in the labor movement, but several obstacles may interfere with deeper…

In January, 1980, the governor of New Jersey signed Ch. 477, the agency shop bill, which allows the majority union representative to negotiate a representation fee for nonmembers. In this article, the New Jersey Education Association explains this law and urges its local affiliates to negotiate such fees. (SJL)

Reviews the latest contract and salary changes in collective agreements in Canadian libraries, using the provinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Ontario as a sample population. The issues likely to be raised at the negotiating table in 1988 are predicted. (5 references) (Author/CLB)

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is an independent federal agency created in 1935 by Congress to administer the National Labor Relations Act, the basic law governing relations between labor unions and business enterprises engaged in operations affecting interstate commerce. In its statutory assignment, the NLRB has two principal…

With the possible exception of No Child Left Behind, no federal law has posed a greater compliance challenge to public school districts in the past ten years than the Fair Labor Standards Act. Unfamiliarity with the Act and its application in the school environment has resulted in millions of dollars in payment of settlements to school district…