The responsibility for education in Australia rests with the states. Teachers in the state of New South Wales, as in other Australian states, are employed by the Public Service Board, which determines working conditions. Teachers are administered, however, under the Department of Education. Labor disputes in Australia are settled not by formal…

Chronicled and analyzed are the experiences of two community colleges and four comprehensive state colleges in two different states where the faculty has chosen to unionize. The case studies are based on field visits and studies of contracts and other relevant documents. Reported on are such questions as: What conditions led the faculty to…

The objective of the project was to develop an inexpensive and effective technique for matching records in multiple fields in order to build a union catalog containing only one representation of a given book. The Information Retrieval Research Lab (IRRL) developed a prototype system called IUCS (IRRL Union Catalog System) by testing various…

To acquaint the faculty and administrators with the scope and breadth of community college collective bargaining agreements, excerpts of selected topics are reproduced in this document without comment. On each topic two or three excerpts from different agreements are reproduced. The following topics are treated: (1) recognition of the employee…

The survey conducted in May, 1975 by the Bureau of Census showed that both the number of employees working more than the standard 40-hour workweek and the number receiving premium pay for hours in excess of the standard were substantially fewer than in the previous year. About 14.1 million wage and salary employees worked overtime in May, 1975…

Examined are the written collective bargaining agreements that existed during any part or all of the 1973-74 academic year between four-year state colleges and faculties who have chosen bargaining agents. All of the written agreements in effect at four-year state colleges, a total of fourteen covering thirty-seven institutions, were analyzed. The…

Three current concerns of planners of postsecondary education are reviewed. Declining test scores are attributed to an effort of high schools to "cool off" prospective enrollees from enrolling in college by discouraging them from taking academically demanding programs, and impacts, especially on prestige schools, which will tend to…

Considered are the nature and extent of some of the basic conflicts that arise when two, future-oriented, decision-making processes--institutional program planning/resource allocation and collective bargaining--are both present on the same campus. The identified conflicts come from the experiences of a university that was one of the first in the…

A guide intended to clarify some concerns relating to collective bargaining in Massachusetts libraries considers both public institutions within the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Public Employee Collective Bargaining Law and private institutions under the National Labor Relations Act. Provisions of both pieces of legislation as to bargaining…

This collective bargaining agreement between the Loretto Heights College and the Loretto Heights College Faculty Education Association covers a period from June 1974 to May 1976. Articles included are: (1) academic freedom; (2) tenure; (3) probationary and nontenure faculty; (4) special category faculty; (5) part-time faculty; (6) calendar and…

Traditionally left out of the mainstream of higher education, blue collar workers and low paid white collar workers are beginning to enroll in college. Among the factors contributing to the drive for college education for workers are: (1) a shift in the composition of the work force; (2) increasing skill requirements in many occupations; (3)…

Concerned with the problems of low representation of minority groups in the craft unions in the building trades, this study examined the journeymen admission policies of 17 national craft unions and 98 local affiliates as provided in their national and local constitutions and in their national and local apprenticeship standards under the program…

This contractual agreement is for the period July 1, 1973 through December 15, 1975. The agreement covers: purpose and intent of the agreement, nondiscrimination, rights of the employer, no-strike guarantee, recognition, union security, union dues and initiation fees, seniority definitions and loss of seniority, probationary employees, union…

Articles of the agreement cover a definition of terms; fair employment practices; probationary employees; uniforms; working hours; compensation rate schedules; overtime; absences; leaves of absence with and without pay; break in service; insurance benefit programs; educational assistance program; longevity pay; retirement benefit programs; filling…

Contained in this document are three labor contracts made by and between Syracuse University and Local 200 General Services Employees' Union, Service Employees' International Union, AFL-CIO. The purpose of the agreements is to promote and maintain good relations between the university, the union, and the employees represented by the union and to…