Teachers and Unions
Teachers and Unions

Author: Michael H. Moskow

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1512804606

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Founded in 1921 as a separate Wharton department, the Industrial Research Unit has a long record of publication and research in the labor market, productivity, union relations, and business report fields. Major Industrial Research Unit studies as published as research projects are completed. This volume is Study no. 42.

Labor Relations in Education
Labor Relations in Education

Author: Todd A. DeMitchell

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2010-01-16

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1607095858

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Collective bargaining in the public schools of the nation has its legal roots in the industrial labor model fashioned in the 1930s out of labor strife between union organizers and private businesses. This industrial union labor model was transplanted almost wholesale into the public sector over fifty years ago when teachers, fire and police personnel were granted the legislative right to collectively bargain their wages, benefits, and terms and conditions of employment in most states. What impact has this industrial model had on public education and on the relationship between teachers and administrators? Labor Relations in Education explores unions and collective bargaining in the public schools of America. The history of the laws, the politics of the response to collective bargaining and unions, and the practices of bargaining and managing a contract are explored in this volume. Changes that may move labor relations into professional relations and away from the industrial labor union model and diminish the schism that exists between educators are discussed. A fully developed simulation is included to employ the practices and concepts discussed in the book.

Teachers and Their Unions
Teachers and Their Unions

Author: Todd A. DeMitchell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-01-15

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1475854293

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Teachers and Their Unions: Labor Relations in Uncertain Times explores the decade of uncertainty in public education following the Great Recession by first laying a foundation that describes the development of teachers and public education and the rise of teacher unions. The selection of the industrial labor model at the outset of public sector collective bargaining set the table for challenges to its fit with education. The theme of teacher as member of a union and teacher as a professional is explored within the context of a collective bargaining environment. The section “Law and Politics in Uncertain Times: Retrenchment and Assault” explores the decade of uncertainty. It reviews the industrial union model and within the twin challenges of the conundrum of teacher as union member and professional in the struggles of the decade. Tenure (boondoggle or necessary protection), VAM (rank and yank), right-to-work, agency fees, and teacher strikes are explored within the themes of the industrial union model and the tension of union member and professional. The book concludes with thoughts for the future and responds to the question of whether teacher unions are still pertinent.

Labor Relations in Education
Labor Relations in Education

Author: Bruce Cooper

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1992-07-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0313267073

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This is the first comparative study of the background, development, laws, structure, and impact of teacher unionism in nations around the world. This ground-breaking analysis offers an international perspective on the world's most populous profession--teaching--and its halting but powerful efforts to form unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to win a decent living for its millions of members. Teachers, union leaders, policymakers, and all who are interested in the issues surrounding education as a profession, the operation of schools, the role of government in education, and the complexities of labor relations in education should make this book must reading. An introduction provides an overview of labor relations in education world-wide, and then separate chapters by experts on education and labor relations in fifteen different countries analyze current policies and problems in places as diverse as China, Greece, Hungary, Mexico, New Zealand, Sweden, Great Britain, and the United States. Specific country studies and the overall conclusion at the end of the book point to past trends and future possible reforms. This unique study emphasizes the importance of unions in national affairs and describes the relationships between governments and the labor movement. A bibliographic essay completes the work.

Collective Bargaining in Public Employment and the Merit System
Collective Bargaining in Public Employment and the Merit System

Author: United States. Office of Labor-Management Policy Development

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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Paper reviewing opinions and developments in the relationship of civil servant collective bargaining to the long-established civil service or merit system in the USA at the national level and local level of government - examines the impact of increasing trade unionization of civil servants, the right to strike, freedom of association, etc., and comments on relevant labour legislation. References.

Collective Bargaining in Public Schools
Collective Bargaining in Public Schools

Author: Kyle W. Mayer

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of this study was to explore how selected superintendents are experiencing the collective bargaining process. Exploration included an examination of the various roles that selected superintendents have played in the collective bargaining process within rural and suburban school districts in Michigan. Furthermore, exploration included thematic areas of greatest challenges facing superintendents in recent collective bargaining negotiations. Particular emphasis was given to the style of collective bargaining environment that superintendents reported as most conducive to successful contract negotiations. In addition, the rising cost of health care benefits was a significant point of emphasis within this study. Twenty-six superintendents from rural and suburban public schools within the state of Michigan participated in this study. Each member of the sample group of superintendents participated in either an in-depth individual interview or a focus group interview. The study used phenomenological approaches to analyze, synthesize, and develop emerging themes that indicated the range of issues and strategies experienced by superintendents within the collective bargaining process. The researcher analyzed and coded the data collected from the individual and focus group interviews. Findings of this study identified several thematic response trends including: 1. Superintendents believe that collective bargaining is more productive in the absence of professional negotiators such as school board hired attorneys and MEA representatives. 2. Superintendents believe that honesty and openness are essential to productive collective bargaining sessions. Honesty and openness are manifested in the form of willingness to share all pertinent district financial documentation. Additionally, open and honest collective bargaining is characterized by a lack of gamesmanship including the practice of making salary or benefit offers that are unrealistic in nature. 3. Superintendents believe that MESSA, a third-party health benefits administrator, is overly expensive and are actively pursuing strategies that will reduce school district cost liabilities in relation to health care costs. 4. In light of current State of Michigan economical issues, superintendents are regularly dealing with the following issues at the bargaining table: proposed reduction of student contact time, a desire to raise staff awareness regarding total compensation, and a hesitancy to negotiate contracts in excess of two years in duration.