Abstract: Our study is the first study that addresses the impact of collective bargaining coverage on salaries in academia for employees other than faculty. We use data from a 1997-98 study on the costs of staffing in higher education conducted by the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers and other sources to estimate the impact of staff unions on staff salaries in American higher education. Our best estimate is that for the occupations in our sample, collective bargaining coverage raises staff salaries by at most 10 to 20 percent relative to the salaries of comparable higher education employees not covered by union contracts.

USA. Compilation of papers on the evolution and nature of collective bargaining and trade unionism among higher education and university teachers - examines the bargaining process, grievance procedures, strike and unofficial strike activities, legal aspects, bargaining issues (incl. In respect of wages, working conditions, fringe benefits, etc.), arbitration, etc., and includes several case studies. Bibliography pp. 217 to 223 and references.

This study detailed full-time faculty salary and fringe benefits in U.S. AASCU institutions by geographic type. The modified version of the 2010 Carnegie Basic Classification of Master's Colleges and Universities was used to reclassify the three classifications: larger, medium, and smaller programs into seven geographic types. The National Center for Education Statistic Integrated Postsecondary Education System (IPEDS) for the 2010-2011 academic year was the source of the data used. Also, analysis of salaries and fringe benefits grouped states by the presence and non-presence of collective bargaining. There is a revelation of significant differences in the compensation for full-time faculty based on geographic type of a public access university. The national salary average was $93,269 while the salary average of faculty at rural medium public access university was $77,844. Average salary earned by faculty at institutions with presence of collective bargaining is higher than in institutions without the presence of collective bargaining. Included in this study are recommendations for further research that include the following: 1) adoption of Katsinas' 2015 Modified Carnegie Basic Classification for Master's Colleges and Universities; 2) study the faculty contribution to fringe benefits and how they have changed over the years; and 3) study geographically based differences in faculty compensation based on the differences in cost of living. Strategies for recruitment and retain faculty was also recommended.

Focuses on the ongoing negotiations of professional autonomy and managerial discretion and provides insight into the broad restructuring of faculty, with conclusions that extend beyond unionized faculty to all of academe.

This study examines systematically the development of faculty collective bargaining at four-year colleges and universities since 1969 and is a valuable addition to the limited and scattered information now available on the subject. The changes in federal and state laws that made this development possible and the application of the law to higher education by federal and state labor boards are carefully and critically analyzed through extensive accounts of the circumstances surrounding the turn to faculty bargaining at a number of institutions.