Describes a New York State school district program that has been successful for the past 20 years. The school board, administrators, and union leaders meet monthly and discuss items not subject to contract negotiations. A close positive relationship has evolved from the meetings. (MD)

Describes how a New York school district developed a way to successfully settle contracts with teachers using a joint committee of the parties involved rather than professional negotiators. (MD)

Examines elements of labor-management relationships in educational institutions, suggesting that communication on a noncrisis basis is crucial to healthy labor relations which are adversarial rather than confrontational. Describes a mature stage of labor-management relation and stresses the importance of sound grievance procedures. (LAL)

Considers the fallacies behind the following common school-board negotiating practices: attaining labor harmony through collective bargaining, never rescinding once-granted benefits, refusing to grant a demand for fear of escalating demands, and gaining teacher gratitude and reduced tensions through board generosity. (JW)

The recent development of Dutch research coordination agencies, the Science Shops, forms the context for a description of the relationship between university research and policy at Amsterdam University and the national trade union organization. Management tools such as project financing and other elements of this system are discussed. (MSE)

While a shift to cooperative employment is happening in some business segments, there is little chance of such a shift taking place in school labor relations. (MD/DCS)

A major cause of the decline in student achievement is the lag time between the rise of teacher unionism and the more recent rise of effective school management. Recommendations for improving educational quality include administrator leadership and refusal to be intimidated by unions, concentration on teaching the basics, and testing newly…

Objectives, content, and participation are described for the symposium held at Unesco House in Paris, December 1975, on conditions calculated to promote the access of workers to education and measures to be taken to give them an effective part in the definition and execution of educational activities of concern to them. (WL)

An interview by Irving Louis Horowitz conducted at Princeton University, Horowitz seminar on Social Science and Public Policy, February 11, 1976. Eli Ginzberg is a Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Columbia University and director of the Conservation of Human Resources Project, Chairman of the National Commission for Manpower Policy. (JM)

Several issues concerning rural workers' organizations and workers' education are discussed: motivation for self-organization, workers' education needs of rural workers, workers' education methods and techniques, training institutions and training personnel, financial resources, and the role of the International Labor Organization workers'…

Citing a decreased proportion of full-time tenured faculty at American colleges and steady increase of part-time adjunct and other nontenure-track faculty, this American Federation of Teachers' (AFT) document advocates professionalism of the manner in which part-time/adjunct faculty are employed, compensated, supported and treated in higher…

Teacher unions will affect the future of both the institution of public education and the institution of organized labor. Ways in which these unions can elevate education to a new level are described in this book. It offers a model in which teacher unions are organized around issues of quality teaching and professional development, as well as…

This book describes the process of unionization among university faculties using case studies of unionization campaigns at three universities. In higher education, faculty unions may have improved the situation of many faculties, but they may have accomplished this at the cost of increasing public skepticism and even antagonism. The chapters are:…

This publication asserts an urgent need to professionalize the manner in which part-time/adjunct college faculty are employed, compensated, and treated, both by their employers and their unions, laying out standards of good practice. Section 1, "Curbing the Exploitation of Part-Time/Adjunct Faculty in Employment," presents standards of…