Responses received from 118 presidents of two-year and four-year institutions indicated their attitudes (pre-unionism and present) toward faculty performance, values, job security, academic freedom, salaries, and academic governance. Significant changes vary by institutional level, union affiliation, and period of unionization. Implications and…

This study estimates the effects on pension benefits received by women that would result from some of the changes recommended in 1981 by the President's Commission on Pension Policy. The author argues that the private pension system now presents several barriers to the attainment of benefits by women. (SSH)

Discusses implications of the requirement to grant employee representation in disciplinary interviews and cites several related court cases. (Author/WD)

A study conducted to identify college student perceptions of business found that the students agreed that the primary goal of business is to make a profit. Over three-fourths of the students felt that major industries are dominated by a few firms and that businesses are too powerful. (LRA)

Ontario secondary teachers were more favorable in 1977 than 1974 towards collective bargaining but showed significantly less support for sanctions, especially striking. Still, if their interests were seriously threatened, they would strike. Teacher sex and length of Ontario residence were significant predictors of militancy. (Author/SB)

Analyzes the significance of the "Krispy Kreme" decision which provides tens of millions of employees with a federal remedy against retailiatory discharge. The case raises a fundamental question of federalism for it may collide with state remedies. (Author/IRT)

This article is concerned with both the political and socioeconomic forces inducing changes in labor relations in schools and with the major implications of these changes for future school staff management. (Author/IRT)

The legal results of the Court's exercise of restraint are quite logical; the social results are more problematical, as too many individuals remain disenfranchised in whole or in part from comprehensive federal protection. Available from Fred B. Rothman & Co., 10368 West Centennial Road, Littleton, CO 80123; sc $3.50. (Author/IRT)

Responsible leaders from all sides of this process should be encouraged by the experiences of New York that efforts to utilize the assistance and aid of responsible unions and their leaders is paramount to survive any fiscal crisis. (Author)

Several plans to improve productivity of workers by use of financial incentives are discussed, and provisions of three of the most successful are outlined, with implications for supervisory training in human resources development. (MF)

A training director talks about the soul-searching that resulted in his decision to resign from his job. The author tells how organizational differences in regard to human resource development practices frustrated his desire to continue his career planning programs for employees, as well as his own personal growth. (MF)

Teacher union leaders face an apparent paradox between dual interests--teachers' educational interests and self-interests. This case study of a small New York school district demonstrates how union members and leaders constructed the dualities differently and how these constructions influenced their behavior. The paradox-construction perspective…

Within Australia's complex labor relations system, federal law has gradually become dominant over state law. In the 1990s, the Australian High Court broadened workers' entitlements. In a 1995 case, teachers have become pivotal in the new industrial relations system. The federal law becomes more significant for unions and their members in seeking…

Printing industry workers, managers, and union representatives and college vocational printing programs were interviewed (n=48). Technological changes were devaluing craftwork, but computers offered new challenges. Companies were changing faster than colleges could respond. A need to identify principles that transcend printing media was…