A growth in organized school employee groups, particularly teacher groups, may require school boards to develop and maintain an affirmative employee relations program to identify and meet needs before they reach the crisis level and, therefore, prevent the issues from developing around which employee unions must justify their existence.…

This study investigated the nature and extent of differences of opinion between chairmen of local school boards and presidents of local education associations regarding collective negotiations. Data for the study were drawn from questionnaires completed by 72 percent of all local education association presidents and 65 percent of all local school…