Considers the pressures for strong and aggressive teacher organizations. (Author/RK)

The author presents portions of a national survey of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association which surveyed attitudes of teacher organization leaders toward aspects of instructional media. (AK)

Higher order needs, for self-actualization and autonomy, were more highly related to teacher militancy than were lower order needs for such benefits as increased salary and sick leave accumulation. (Editor)

The author describes his feelings as the only teacher at his school to support the New York City teachers' strike in 1961. (SJL)

The research reported here, on teacher contract negotiations, was conducted in response to the observation that teachers' bargaining agents are frequently uncertain about the aspirations, goals, and commitments of those they represent. It describes a short questionnaire that may be used in teacher contract negotiations to assess what the…

Teachers strike for economic and political reasons. (Author/IRT)

To determine how the Oklahoma City (Oklahoma) teachers feel about unions and collective bargaining activities, 150 questionnaires were distributed. Major findings from 83 respondents were that low satisfaction with wages and unfair treatment are associated with feelings that teachers' strikes are legitimate and with high evaluation of unions. (MLF)

Data from 300 randomly selected K-12 teachers employed in 1979-80 in the Jefferson Parish (Louisiana) Public Schools revealed 10 predictor variables that substantially differentiated striking and nonstriking teachers. (Author/WD)

This document presents the results of a study designed to elicit characteristics of professors in the field of the social sciences in the California State Colleges. The findings of the study support previous findings related to other social scientists in other parts of the country. Highlights of the findings include: (1) Social scientists tend to…

This study discusses faculty attitudes toward collective bargaining, including collective negotiations, sanctions, and withholding of faculty services. The purpose was to determine whether faculty members' perceptions of their capacities for power and mobility were related to their expression of relatively favorable or unfavorable attitudes toward…

The basic concern of this paper is to identify those demographic, occupational, and organizational variables that might differentiate between those professions that have higher levels of attitudinal militancy from those that exhibit less militancy. Semantic differential attitudinal data was collected from 414 teachers in two school districts and…