After examining the existing legal standards governing free speech and equal access in representation elections, the author analyzes various reform possibilities and suggests a unified approach for legislative action. Available from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, 3400 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104; $3.00 sc.…

The purpose of Great Britain's Workers Educational Association (WEA) has been variously viewed as general education, union-related education, and as further industrial training. Attempts are being made to assess workers' needs and return control of WEA's educational programs to the learners. (SK)

The holding that an employee could pay the equivalent of her union dues to a charity signifies an acceptance of accommodation and tolerance for differing religious practices in a pluralistic society. Available from Tennessee Law Review Association, Inc., 1505 W. Cumberland Ave., Knoxville, TN 37916. (Author/IRT)

Educational and cultural activities of the Histadrut, the General Federation of Labor long responsible for workers' education in Israel, are described. Also discussed are immigrants' education, women's education, the Israeli Arab, and cooperative Third World programs. (SK)

An Austrian survey of discriminatory practices in the texts of all collective agreements in force in March 1978 (except those covering public employees) identified six main forms of potential discrimination. Examples found among white-collar workers in the private sector and among textile, clothing, and leather workers are cited. (CT)

Describes the author's initiation into the world of retired seamen as the men, in a writing workshop, related the stories of their lives as sailors and how their union was built. (FL)

Reviews involvement by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) in educational reform in New York and/or in the United States since it was established in l960. Focuses on curriculum concerns, sources of UFT policy, and governance issues. (DB)

Discusses instances in which it is contended that boards of education have bargained away some of their policy-making rights and public reaction to these instances. (IRT)

Using the Burkean concept of identity-identification, this paper isolates the genesis of conflict between teachers' unions and the public during and after strikes. Strategies to change resentment into advocacy of the union cause by nonunion community members are offered. (Author/IRT)

This study lends support for the hypothesis that management attitudes toward the union have a strong influence on the success of the union-management relationship in the public sector. However, the causal direction of this correlation was not thoroughly determined. (Author)

Interest and pressure group activity is analyzed in the context of state public employee relations laws and state "open meeting" laws. Suggests that the courts and state labor relations boards are susceptible receptors of pressure- and interest-group influence. (Author/IRT)

Discusses how educational practice is influenced by economic, political, and social forces that reside outside the schools or school district. (CM)

Unionization of employees of church-related institutions is essentially a management issue which cannot be decided by their legal counsels. Since attorneys must implement the decisions, the policies of the National Labor Relations Board regarding church-related institutions are reviewed and related to experiences in Chicago. (LBH)

The successful principal knows "you have to pay the cost to be the boss". But what is the price for leadership? Discusses factors necessary for effective administrative leadership and the principal's responsibility in implementing them. (Author/RK)

Appraises the impact of unions on the wages of nonprofessional hospital employees in 21 metropolitan areas in 1966, 1969, and 1972. Effect of other wage determinants is also examined. Analysis shows that impact has been significant and that it has been greater in private than in public hospitals. (Editor/LAS)