Introduces two articles that (1) supply the union and management perspectives of the Supreme Court decision in "Ellis vs. Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks" and (2) discuss how this decision affects the public sector in the area of education. (MLF)

Addresses the question of what to do when an organization has an agency shop. Introduces two articles that present, respectively, the views of management and of unions on the subject of agency shop. (MD)

Reviewed are the most significant legal issues affecting labor relations in education. Concerns involving agency shop, duty of fair representation, impasse arbitration, tenure, and curriculum (what it should or should not contain) are summarized. (MD)

In this introduction to three articles on collective bargaining the author outlines concerns and questions about the proposition of public referendum as a means of resolving negotiation impasses. (MD)

Recent criticism of education is causing pressure for major educational reform. Change involves significant labor relations implications for both management and unions. Collective bargaining can help if its process and use are understood. (MD)

Outlines the concerns about collective bargaining issues and teachers brought about as a result of the "National Labor Relations Board v. Yeshiva University" decision. (MD)

Introduces the issues involved in public employee strikes and the questions relating to liability for damage claims by students. (MD)

The probability that union activities will increase in higher education is heightened by the strong endorsement of collective bargaining made in 1984 by the American Association of University Professors and by recent court decisions putting increased stress on nonorganized faculty members. (PGD)

Labor relations between schools and their employees are likely to experience continued change in the 1980s, affecting not only the legislative framework for collective bargaining in the public sector, but also union representation struggles, job security, bargaining issues, layoff procedures, and arbitration. (RW)

The introduction to two articles--one representing unions, the other management--notes that Ohio's four-year-old collective bargaining law can provide insight into how law is affected by the statutory language, the administrative bodies, and the courts' interpretations. (MLF)

An introduction to two following articles states that public sector labor relations lacks a consensus on the status of supervisors. This concerns who should be treated as a "supervisor," whether supervisors should be represented by a union, and whether supervisors should be allowed in the same bargaining unit as nonsupervisors. (Author/MLF)

The California State Mediation and Conciliation Service, a state agency, has conducted approximately 150 mediations per year in public schools. Describes the use of grievance mediation in resolving disputes between California public school systems and their unions. (MLF)

The two major areas of litigation concerning collective bargaining are challenges to arbitrability and to arbitrators' awards and contests over the scope of bargaining. As these topics indicate, there is currently more dispute over the differences the parties have in carrying out their bilateral relationship in bargaining than over the existence…