Urban teachers' unions, as mature institutions, face three dilemmas: ensuring a steady supply of quality teachers while limiting supply to raise demand and salaries; seeking to become a more powerful national voice for teachers; and striving to preserve large, monopolistic public education while being aware of the need to reform, restructure, and…

Reports an investigation of the extent to which teacher and administrator attitudes toward the scope of the negotiations process are related to such demographic variables as age and marital status, and such attitudinal variables as satisfaction and teacher association support. (Author/JM)

The current bargaining model, by its very structure, nature and operating assumptions, tends to restrict active citizen participation in deciding many educational policy issues. (Author/EB)

Investigates the attitudes and values among secondary school teachers choosing to join union organizations, hypothesizing that status inconsistency among the dimensions of prestige and income is an important motive for militant behavior among secondary teachers. (Author/JM)

This article reports on a survey of urban school superintendents and teacher organization presidents which studied the effects of recent trends in collective bargaining on teachers' contracts. (EB)

This article describes specific areas in education which have been problematic over the last 18 years and discusses ways in which the collective bargaining process was able to cope with them. (Author/EB)

Describes the rise of teacher power and the reasons for this rise, assesses the impact of the new teacher power on public policy, and explores the question of what ought to be the role of teachers in the development of policy for public schools. (Author/JM)

An examination of the nature and use of appealed grievances in an urban school district indicated that the grievance appeals process was being utilized by the leaders of the teacher organization to enhance their organization's status. Classroom conditions were found to be a likely area of future conflict and implications are discussed for the…

The central thesis of this essay is that schools may be becoming both more political and more bureaucratic because of collective bargaining. (Author/EB)

This article discusses selected findings from a recent study which examined the organizational, political, and economic consequences of collective bargaining on local school districts. The focus is on the major trends in teacher collective bargaining as they affect school and classroom operations. (Author/EB)

Among teachers, initial cynicism toward reform proposals has given way to support. Teacher organizations, especially the American Federation of Teachers, have played an important role in encouraging this positive response. However, teachers remain wary of the reform movement, feeling that some of the proposed reforms would be detrimental to their…