Data on 1985 faculty bargaining agents and collective bargaining agreements in public and private U.S. and Canadian colleges are presented, along with a brief narrative description of 1985 trends. For each institution, information is provided on the bargaining agent, unit size, the year the current agent was elected, the year the initial contract…

A bibliography of 1,070 publications and court cases affecting labor relations and college faculty, as well as the health professions, is presented with a focus on calendar year 1984. The faculty section covers: academic freedom, accountability, administration, affirmative action, arbitration and mediation, collective bargaining, community…

This short booklet, intended for use by local unions who wish to establish a day care center in the workplace, provides some guidelines which may assist them to facilitate this process. Guidelines are given on issues such as the formation of contract language to be presented at the time of negotiations, ways to finance a child care center, types…

This manual provides labor education advisors with basic information on adult learners, specifically members of a union, and barriers to lifelong learning. Definitions of adult learners and lifelong learning are first provided. A background section reports that the number of adults representing the rank and file union membership enrolled in…

In a report condensing the findings of a study, "Training and Entry into Union Construction", it is emphasized that the apprenticeship system constitutes the best form of training now used in the building trades. (Author/AG)

Discusses the importance of sound communication between the bookstore manager on campus and the various deans, and department chairmen and faculty. (PG)

This paper is addressed to three major themes related to career education in Europe among which was the contrasts seen in the context of career education as one views its processes in Europe and in the United States. (Author/RK)

Probes tenure, tenure guarantees, union protests, affirmative action, early retirement, ideal steady-state faculty mix, and their implications for higher education. (PG)

This project proposed to develop and test the use of microform catalogs produced from computer-generated magnetic tape records in both fiche and film formats. The Computer Output Microform (COM) catalog developed for this purpose is a union list of titles from the five participating libraries--Houston and Dallas Public Libraries, Texas State…

A catalog committee operating within the University of California library system investigated ways to standardize subject and name entries for the National Union Catalog (NUC). Two sources identified as the contributors of most of the unreliable NUC card copies were research libraries with large special collections requiring expanded or refined…

Since collective bargaining in public education is here to stay, boards of education should learn to accept it for what it is--an adversary process. The author contends that striking is not a very viable weapon in the arsenal of the teachers' union because the schools will continue to operate, and public pressure against prolonged strikes and…