Presents and evaluates the National Education Association's for-pay software review program. Also reviews the 98th Congress's legislation relating to school software. (MD)

The author argues that shop steward training escalated during the 1970s due to a specific public policy strategy to restructure labor relations and collective bargaining at company and workplace levels. (Author/SSA)

Focuses on the legal status of employee-participation programs, such as quality circles, that coexist with but are not controlled by unions. Suggests changes in public policy to protect participation programs that do not threaten the bargaining agent. (JOW)

Describes the historical and social events which accompanied the rise of the agricultural advisor in France. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Examines the historical and social context of the rise of the militant trade unionist, and his role in French Society. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Examines the issues of whether unions and faculty senates, or other governing groups, can co-exist; who represents whom or what, and who should pay the costs of operating an advocate organization. (Author/RK)

Discussion of benefits to librarians as collective bargaining provides for employee input in the negotiation of contracts without demanding any reduction in professionalism on the job.

Reviews state labor legislation passed or debated in 1975 and early 1976. Also describes the impact of amending laws on the current labor picture and evident trends in public attitudes toward public employees. For availability, see EA 507 548. (Author)

An interview with the President of the International Council of Scientific Unions. Stressed are the difficulties preventing the full flow of information, personnel, and projects within the international scientific community by politics and policies of individual nations. (SL)

This report describes recent hiring and retirement patterns as well as tenure-related changes and actions taken by public and private not-for-profit postsecondary institutions that offered an associate's or higher degree in fall 2003 and participated in federal Title IV student aid programs. The 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty…

This book is a study of the Australian Education Union (AEU), a federal organization of government schoolteachers in the states and territories of Australia. Founded in 1984 as the Australian Teachers Union, it became the AEU in 1993. By 1998, the AEU had grown to become the third largest trade union in Australian, with some 157,000 members. This…

Teacher control of public education is a possibility. If it eventuates, the concept of local, lay, public control of the schools is going to be severely shaken. (Author/WM)

The International Labour Office (ILO) will have to concentrate on: instructor training; strengthening the education, research and documentation services of trade unions; establishing and reinforcing permanent institutions of workers' education; promoting workers' education for all forms of participation in development; and teaching workers about…