Discusses how the members of the Chicago Teachers Union are working to reform their local public schools. Also discusses the merger of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Teachers Association. (JOW)

Examines the involvement of two teacher organizations in state or provincial educational reform in the 1990s through the perspective of constructivism and organizational evolution. The two unions adopted a complex mix of reactive and proactive incremental and discontinuous orientations to change. (Contains 28 references.) (Author/PKP)

Discusses the deficiencies of search engines and the importance of metadata and examines three models of metadata retrieval: distributed; distributed data with a centralized index; and centralized union catalog. Highlights include the Z39.50 protocol; the OAI (Open Archives Initiative) protocol; virtual union catalogs; and a pan-European model.…

Discusses Fabianism, the essence of which was the rejection of laissez-faire, which apportioned the products of labor in inverse proportion to the products of labor involved. Also discusses "The Fabian Essays," which expressed its doctrine that each citizen has an equal claim in the common good in respect of his or her equal needs. (JOW)

Data from the 1984 Union Image Survey confirm the hypothesis that workers' interest in the types of consumer benefits offered by associate membership programs was strongly related to their interest in joining such programs but not in their readiness to vote for a union. General attitudes toward unions significantly affected both choices. (Author)

Summarizes the history of bargaining units formed to represent professional employees and presents the results of a survey of officers of 40 professional staff unions. These unions resemble conventional unions in bargaining issues such as job security and salaries and in their relationship with management. They differ in their infrequent use of…

Discusses the need for training programs to deal with solving the problems labor unions will face as a result of changing demographics in the labor force. Provides a model for developing a carefully prepared, realistic case study based on an actual situation. (JOW)

Presents extracts from a record of the general strike in 1917 of the Union General de Trabajadores de Espana (UGT), the General Workers' Union of Spain. (SK)

A survey of 202 Massachusetts union leaders received 94 responses indicating that women are overrepresented as union secretaries and underrepresented as presidents. They rarely chair grievance or negotiation committees. Both male and female leaders would like to see more women leaders, but males felt that women's issues were adequately represented…

Educational needs assessment is not a solution to all the issues in workers' education, but it is a solid building block for effective workers' education. (Author)

Between 1973 and 1988, private sector union membership fell by 9.5 percentage points more for men than women; the gender wage gap decreased by 0.09. Unionism fell more slowly for women. Greater decline in male unionism is responsible for one-seventh of the decline in the wage gap. (SK)

The San Francisco Hotels Partnership is a consortium of hotel operators and unions that addresses skill-development needs in the hospitality industry. Participating workers were very satisfied with the opportunity to learn communication, problem solving, and teamwork skills. (SK)

Steps unions can take to assist women's career development include developmental learning in a holistic approach that includes family and work; meaningful efforts to incorporate women into union leadership; and structural, programmatic, and cultural changes in union operations. (SK)

Data from 2,061 British companies in the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey supported the hypothesis that powerful unions reduce the external threat of job loss and therefore the pace of work in unionized firms is less responsive to such threats. (SK)

Discusses the problems associated with nonstandard working hours. Suggests that parents, particularly low-paid women, often get shift work that makes child care a nightmare. (JOW)