Students who do not negotiate their job offers often leave value on the table, which will compound over time and perhaps throughout an entire career. The purpose of this article is to present a process that has been successfully used to instruct management students regarding what to communicate during their job offer negotiations. Sample…

Trust and fairness are essential components in building strong, positive relationships with union representatives. Although negotiating contracts with faculty and employee unions can be challenging, it's easier and less contentious when the two sides approach the process not as adversaries, but as partners in improving education. Even with strong…

Massive protests have been the norm in Wisconsin, since Gov. Scott Walker unveiled a plan to strip many collective bargaining rights from teachers and most other public employees. GOP elected officials are pursuing similar measures in Ohio and other states. But in the DeForest district, like some others around the state, collective bargaining,…

In this policy brief the author shows that contracts negotiated by local teachers' unions and district administrations allow for more flexibility than conventional views suggest. CBAs (collective bargaining agreements) are quite varied in their contents, and many school boards and unions have used the flexibility inherent in contract negotiations…

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…

This article presents an overview of the use of adjunct faculty generally and within gerontology programs and discusses the benefits, drawbacks and possible solutions for both adjunct faculty and gerontology programs to utilize part-time teaching staff. The benefits reported for being a part-time faculty member include wanting to be in academia…

There are many similarities in collective bargaining as it is carried on in different types of political subdivisions. Where organizations are competing for the right to represent a group of workers, the concept of "majority rules" generally prevails. The election and designation of a specific bargaining unit occasionally needs clarification in…

Surveys various reactions of faculties and administrators to the collective bargaining experience of the State University of New York during the first year of a negotiated agreement between the State of New York and the Senate Professional Association, and examines attitude changes over the one-year period. (Editor/PG)

After contract terms are agreed upon by teachers and school boards, an everyday harmonious relationship must still be established. (LR)

The crisis in the American economy has provided an opportunity to change traditional bargaining methods and to get the unions involved in taking a serious look at their stake in a healthy economy. (JOW)

As the climate of negotiations is essential to the form an agreement will take, so are its implementation procedures vital to how it will be administered and how effective it will prove to be. (Author)

During the 1980s, the number of local education associations engaging in some type of collaborative bargaining, a problem-solving approach conducted in an atmosphere of mutual respect, grew significantly. In exploring the theory and practice of collaborative bargaining, the National Education Association relied on available published materials and…

Contained in this document is the agreement between the State of New York and the United University Professions, Incorporated. The duration of the agreement is from July 1, 1974 through June 30, 1976. Articles of the agreement cover: academic freedom; grievance procedures; employee organization leave; discipline; travel allowance; sabbatical…

This publication seeks to provide reasonable and practical answers to basic questions of professional ethics and is intended to help the reader to understand the sometimes overlapping organizational relationships and to plan an orderly course of action. The four chapters cover the following topics: 1) ethical problems in teaching, defining…