In the first section on grievance procedures, this report gives important suggestions to administrators and teachers, discusses the roles of administrators and chapter chairmen in grievance processing, and provides a one-page grievance formula. In the second section on grievance arbitration, the report (1) discusses the rationale for binding…

This report presents suggestions for avoiding teacher strikes and provides procedures that can be followed to minimize acrimony in the community and maintain board control over schools should a strike be executed. For example, boards should understand the roots of teacher militancy. They should provide teachers with (1) reasonable salaries and…

School board members and school administrators are provided with information concerning their roles in controlling the growing organized militancy of teachers. Positions and concepts that the management team should adopt in developing a collective negotiations agreement are discussed in many areas, including (1) composition of bargaining units,…

Information is presented that is designed to help school board members and public school administrators successfully carry out collective negotiations with teacher organizations. The following topics are discussed: (1) Comparison of private and public collective bargaining, (2) essential ingredients of collective negotiations agreements, (3)…