Problems that plague the National Labor Relations Board and threaten both its effectiveness and its existence include loss of worker and union confidence, declining union membership, criticism of board decisions, accusations of politicization, current member vacancies, and inefficiency in meeting the case load. (MSE)

Public employers, including school districts, are faced with unionized workers' demanding a larger share of public resources. The formation of regional bargaining associations for employers to counteract union demands is proposed. A case study of a successful association is provided. (MD)

Tabulation of an academic library's record of improved success rate and fill time for interlibrary loans utilizing the OCLC interlibrary loan subsystem supports continued use of four common-sense rules: use OCLC first; use other union lists next; select smallest nearby library; spread requests among small libraries. Twelve references are cited.…

Reports the findings of a study that assessed teachers' perceptions of (1) how and when they were supervised or evaluated, (2) what effect teacher unions had on these processes, (3) how they learned how well they were doing in the classroom, and (4) what direct or indirect effects supervision or evaluation had on their teaching activities. (HOD)

Discusses the issue of merit pay, its becoming a political issue for national politicians, and reactions of teacher union leaders. Examples illustrating individual merit pay systems in five school districts are presented. (MBR)

Describes the establishment of the documentation center and the projects it has undertaken: union catalog of social science periodicals and serials; bibliographies (Indian economic, Mahatma Gandhi, area studies, language); retrospective index of periodicals; compilation of indexes and bibliographies assisted by council in its grants-in-aid scheme;…

The president of the Toledo Federation of Teachers discusses how experienced teachers in that city oversee the professional development of new teachers and provide assistance to veteran colleagues experiencing severe problems in the classroom. He also describes the role played in this plan by the union. (CMG)

Tests hierarchical regression model--library employee's salary is a function of library size, public sector collective bargaining strength, library's ability to pay, cost of living in area, presence of any union and union representing librarians in library--on three salary levels (department head, beginning librarian, clerical worker). (29…

Goals of micropreservation project at New York Public Library are twofold: to improve in-house processing and control of microforms (updating bibliograhic information, adding records to Research Libraries Information Network database, inspecting archival master negatives) and to participate in national preservation effort (supplementing…

An overview of the legal obligation of public school districts to bargain with their employees. (MLF)

The author contends that districts should reject binding interest arbitration as a means of resolving an impasse in contract negotiations, charging that it hampers good faith bargaining, adversely affects fiscal and operational management of the school system, and diminishes the governing role of the board of education. (MJL)

Student involvement in collective bargaining has been explored through three student roles, the most tenable of which is students as employees. Student bargaining units that include both manual hourly workers and advanced graduate students have been recognized voluntarily and legally. Issues in student unionization are accountability,…

Commuting college students outnumber their residential counterparts by about three to one. Administrators need to become conscious of the needs of these students and strive for practical solutions. (MLF)

The death of Nazareth Diocesan High School on August 31, 1974 and the resurrection of the Nazareth Regional High School on September 1, 1974 came about because of financial difficulties in the first place and community spirit in the second place. This Catholic high school in Brooklyn reflects the impact that parents and students can have in…

This study examines the year-to-year movement in the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers, 1907-72, using union contract rates in the construction industry. The author examines a number of hypotheses that have been suggested as explanation for changes in the skill differential. (Editor/HD)