This is one of the first compilations on collective bargaining in higher education reflecting the work of scholars, practitioners, and employer and union advocates. It offers a practical and comprehensive resource to higher education leaders responsible for developing, managing, and maintaining collective bargaining relationships with academic personnel. Offering views from an experienced and diverse group, this book explores how to manage relationships in collaborative, transparent, and equitable ways, best practices for meaningful outcome measures, and approaches for framing collective bargaining as a long-term process that benefits the institution. This volume provides an overview of the contemporary landscape, benchmark measures of success, and practical advice focusing on advancing collaborative, equitable, and sustainable labor relations approaches in higher education. Designed for administrators, union leaders, elected officials, and policy makers, at all stages of their careers as well as for faculty and students in graduate programs, this volume serves as an invaluable resource for those who endeavor to conceptualize, conduct, manage, and implement collective bargaining in more mutually effective and beneficial ways for all parties.

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.

This publication contains 17 papers on the impact of collective bargaining on higher education over the past 20 years. The papers are grouped in four sections on the state of unions in higher education, individual and collective rights in the academy, bargaining in the trenches, and overviews of past and present legal issues. The papers are: (1) "Robust Unionism and Unions in Higher Education" by Arthur B. Shostak; (2) "Can Collective Bargaining Help Institutions During a Period of Constrained Resources?" by T. Edward Hollander; (3) "Is Unionization Compatible with Professionalism?" by David M. Rabban; (4) "Changes in the U.S. System of Industrial Relations: Its Impact on Collective Bargaining in Higher Education" by James P. Begin; (5) "Unions in a Battered Academy" by Irwin H. Polishook; (6) "The Impact of the Constitutionalization of Higher Education on Collective Bargaining: Individual Rights vs. Collective Action" by David H. Rosenbloom; (7) "Professional and Legal Limits to Academic Freedom" by Walter P. Metzger; (8) "Academic Freedom: Are There Permissive Parameters to Free Speech in the Academy?" by Timothy Healy; (9) "Peer Review and the Union: Hero or Hostage?" by Barbara A. Lee; (10) "When Collective Bargaining Fails: An Academic Perspective" by David Kuechle; (11) "When Collective Bargaining Fails: A Management Perspective" by Thomas M. Mannix; (12) "Collective Bargaining Is the Name of the Game" by David Newton; (13) "Dispute Resolution in Higher Education Collective Bargaining" by Norman G. Swenson; (14) "The Employee Health Care Cost Crisis" by Michael R. McGarvey; (15) "Seminal Legal Developments of the Past Twenty-Five Years Affecting Higher Education Collective Bargaining" by Ann H. Franke; (16) "Twenty-Five Years of Seminal Legal Developments in Higher Education Collective Bargaining" by Woodley B. Osborne; and (17) "Campus Bargaining and The Law: The Annual Update" by James Cowden. (JB).

Structural reform in higher education collective bargaining is examined in these conference proceedings, along with recent state bargaining legislation, and legal, union, and management views concerning sex discrimination in higher education. The 19 article topics and authors include: the problem of reshaping the fringe package (Claude Campbell); cafeteria or flexible benefit plans (Jerry Veldof); whether tenure is an obstacle to reform (Dena Elliott Benson) and (Margaret Schmid); concession bargaining (Michael B. Rosen); concession bargaining in historical perspective (Irwin Yellowitz); concession bargaining at Monmouth College (Philip C. Donahue); merit pay (Ted Hollander, Judith Turnbull) and (J. N. Musto); comparable worth practice in Minnesota (Nina Rothchild); sex discrimination overview (Bernice Resnick Sandler); emerging case law of sex discrimination (Judith Vladeck) and (Mike Cecere); statistical issues in discrimination litigation (Mary W. Gray); grievance claims (Jennie Farley); the status of Ohio's Public Employee Bargaining Law (D. Benson); the status of Illinois' Educational Labor Relations Act (Margaret Schmid); research on finance and environments at 93 colleges and implications for collective bargaining (Richard E. Anderson); and research on interpretive strategy and institutional vitality (Ellen Earle Chaffee). (SW)