A sample of 371 graduate students in 5 departments at the University of California at Berkeley was interviewed regarding their professional, academic, and political orientations. Their attitudes on academic work and institutions and political and academic issues were compared on the basis of their identification with the role of student, as…

This report contains information on State-by-State membership in the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) locals in 1974; comparative national AFT membership data for the years 1970 through 1974; information on State federations and their officers; AFT administrator locals; percent of instructional staff in the United States by members of the AFT…

The author states that clerical workers will be the next major labor group to be organized. He says that clerical educators have two responsibilities: (1) to include instructional content that speaks to the topic of unions and (2) to become very familiar with the basic content and related issues. (CH)

This article examines unionization among college faculty in 1994. Academic unions represented 242,221 professors in 1994, a growth of 3.2 percent over 1993, and there were 502 bargaining agents on 1,075 campuses throughout the United States. This increase can be attributed to three factors: (1) unions won 8 out of 11 collective bargaining…

The working class citizen needs to feel that the Government is concerned about him and is willing to take steps to meet a citizen's needs for public services. (Author)

In January 1982, the University of Massachusetts faculty union demanded the termination of nondues-paying faculty members. Dissenters argue that dues (for equivalent sum) conflicts with tenure rights/academic freedom; union leaders see it as a threat to union security. Issues and tensions related to bargaining at the university are discussed. (JN)

The speeches and writings of Albert Shaker, many taken from his weekly newspaper column, reveal his abiding concern for educational improvement and his continuing commitment of the American Federation of Teachers to the support of real improvement, grounded in high standards and not in reform fads. (SLD)

Examines organizational commitment in unionized and nonunionized research libraries based on a survey of 400 professional employees at 26 libraries. Organizational commitment was studied in relation to union presence, union membership status, and union commitment. (Contains 22 references.) (KRN)

This dictionary of the abbreviations used to identify libraries in union catalogs, bibliographies, and other works is a master list of symbols used by the Library of Congress plus those developed by other bibliographers. Libraries in the United States and foreign countries and commercial producers of microforms are listed by abbreviation and by…

Collective bargaining should yield benefits for all if public managers are willing to recognize that bargaining is a system through which employees can have a meaningful say in decisions that affect their working lives, and if these managers accept their obligation to act as managers in the public interest. (Author/IRT)

Depicts the historical beginning of the Labor Day celebration, gives dates, places, and persons involved in the holiday observance, and briefly provides information about early labor organizations. (WL)

Discusses the development and function of the University and College Labor Education Association in the United States, workers' education in Japan, the 25th birthday of the Central Board of Workers' Education in India, and the general conference of the International Federation of Workers' Educational Associations in Paris. (JOW)

Noting that more labor organizations merged between 1979 and 1984 than at any time since the formation of the AFL-CIO, the author describes specific mergers and provides a chronology of those occurring in the last five years. (SK)

Reviews public-sector employers' problems with agency shop agreements from a management perspective. Emphasizes preventative approaches. In negotiating agency fee obligations, employers must anticipate constitutional and labor relations issues. (MD)