Discusses how student unions might conduct research to enhance the viability of their programs and services, especially in the area of auxiliaries. (EV)

Mutual gains negotiation is an innovative system that emphasizes interests instead of positions and problem solving instead of preconceived solutions. The process can reverse social disintegration, reverse worker alienation, and address a shifting educational environment. It can resolve difficult labor-management problems such as contracting out,…

Presents data from a salary survey of 26 positions in the college unions and student activities profession. Average salaries rose 3 percent from last year, the smallest increase in a decade. Includes several data tables. (EV)

Asserts that union professionals and urban planners share the overlying goal of building community, and that the theories of William H. Whyte, an urban researcher, have application in thinking about space and facilitating interaction on today's college campuses. (EV)

Using the framework of communities of practice, data were collected from a labor union education program (152 survey responses, 3 life histories). Despite negative early schooling experiences, respondents saw union involvement as a rationale to participate in formal education. Union education was depicted as situated learning through participation…

Discusses the history of Britain's Workers' Educational Association and suggests that it must show why its philosophy and practices work in order to remain viable. (JOW)

Case study of a Canadian aluminum smelter through 15 interviews, observation, and employee survey (n=214) revealed high commitment, acceptance of change, and worker independence from management. This pattern emerged from a traditionally strong union presence. Comparison with other cases underlines the centrality of collective organization to…

Analysis of data from a 1998 telecommunications industry survey indicates that institutional pressures and human resource strategies contribute to adoption of nonunion dispute resolution procedures. Employment rights litigation and court deferral to nonunion arbitration led to an increase in mandatory arbitration procedures. Threat of unionization…

Discusses late-night programming by college student unions as an alternative to high-risk drinking behavior, describing such programs at Michigan State, Penn State, and West Virginia universities. Addresses these programs' mission statement, goals, presidential support, staffing, food, programming ideas, promotion and publicity, assessment,…

When conducting teacher evaluations, the wise principal acts within union contracts and board policies, asks teachers for self-evaluations, carefully plans classroom visits, observes correctly, takes accurate notes, considers videotaping teachers, deemphasizes ratings, makes postevaluation conferences meaningful, and offers teachers a chance for…

Provides insight into how computers can be used in union education. States that they will never replace an effective classroom environment where participants' questions are answered by instructors, but can support existing systems. (JOW)

The hidden curriculum of industrial education is the culture of the industrial workplace. Socialization into unions and accepted workplace behaviors are a product of racial, class-bound, and gendered assumptions in a male culture of work and must be taken into account by industrial educators. (SK)

Although wages and salaries have risen faster for nonunion workers than for union workers in recent years, three Bureau of Labor Statistics series suggest that the union edge persists. Estimates of its magnitude depend on the data analyzed. (Author)

Discusses the history of silk production from its beginnings in China. Concentrates on the development of the industry in Lyon, France, and the uprising of silk weavers in 1831 and 1834. (JOW)

Examines the experience of worker participation and finds that the tendency is for such programs to weaken unions and limit workers' power in significant ways. (JOW)