Using individual student data from the Sustaining Effects Survey, the authors examine the question "Do teacher unions affect the productivity of public schools?" Results indicate that union districts are seven percent more productive for average students, but less productive for students who are significantly above or below average.…

Describes a model for delivering stress education programs to union members. Steps include (1) providing an understanding of stress, (2) examining clinical effects of stress, (3) reviewing coping techniques, and (4) linking the first three steps in order to develop a plan for dealing with stress. (CH)

The National Education Association's response to the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy proposals for school reform gives qualified support to suggestions for changes in teacher training and certification. (MSE)

Discusses changes that might take place as a result of regularizing the status of undocumented workers without changing the total size of the alien workforce. Suggests that the influence of legal status on market wage rates and minimum wage enforcement is weak and that the presence of undocumented (versus resident) aliens can weaken union…

The Supreme Court issued an unclear decision in "Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education." The case generated five opinions that do not agree on a single set of legal principles to give needed guidance to public officials. Includes discussion of two other cases relating to affirmative action and hiring practices. (MD)

Law discusses a major legislative initiative on trade union education and paid educational leave in New Zealand. A second article describes France's new law covering leave for economic, social, and trade union education. (SK)

Theories of trade union development are applied to the growth of teacher unions in nineteenth century Queensland (Australia), and the importance of three factors (teachers' work situation, union leadership, and favorable sociopolitical climate) is discussed. (MSE)

Changes in the trade union education system in the United Kingdom include a hardening of the attitudes of employers and the state, a reemergence of political education, and increased demand for paid educational leave. (SK)

Critiques the referendum model for impasse resolution in collective bargaining disputes from a union perspective. Outlines problems including the length of time a dispute could be extended by the process, and the loss of confidentiality in the mediation process. (MD)

Reviews the positions of the National Education Association on merit pay and on establishment of independent teacher certification boards and explains how those positions contrast with Myron Lieberman's proposal (EA 519 376) for the creation of national educational specialty boards to recognize outstanding teaching. (PGD)

Johnson's book, Teacher Unions in Schools, describes six teachers' unions' negotiated contracts and their effects on school district practices. She suggests that healthy, productive new relationships are possible between administration and faculty. (GDC)

The refusal of union leadership to accept the perspective of interracial unionism has meant the failure to organize the South. If unions are to implement the principle of democracy in the workplace, they must undergo a major transformation, becoming the voice of the unemployed, the working poor, and of women and racial minorities. (Author)

The probability that union activities will increase in higher education is heightened by the strong endorsement of collective bargaining made in 1984 by the American Association of University Professors and by recent court decisions putting increased stress on nonorganized faculty members. (PGD)

Recent organizational and legal changes of Australia's faculty union may affect its operations and power. Some concern has been expressed at its centralization, some at growth in branch power versus institutional-level power. Short-term change is unlikely because the same individuals will be making decisions for some time. (Author/MSE)

International Labour Organization committees have studied the needs of industry in the light of technological innovations and have recommended expanding the scope of education and training programs for workers, adapting training to technological change and social needs, and modifying programs to suit the needs and degree of development of each…