Monograph on collective bargaining by teachers of higher education in the USA - analyses the faculty trade union movement as a response to changing trends in institutional frameworks and attitudes, etc., and includes a comparison of the situation in the UK. References.

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.

This proceedings document discusses academic leadership in uncertain times, the need for a cooperative model of collective bargaining to provide administration and faculty the flexibility required to respond to changing times, who should bargain for whom and for what, readiness of the next generation to lead, and retirement issues for college faculty. Papers include: "Academic Leadership While the Sky Is Falling: A Union Perspective" (Ernst Benjamin); "The Sky Has Fallen, the Abyss Beckons: Academic Leaders Respond to Crisis in Massachusetts Public Higher Education" (Paul F. Weller); "Academic Polemics: A Leader's Response to the Critics of Academe" (Irwin H. Polishook); "Cooperative Models of Collective Bargaining and Collegial Governance: The Perspective of an Academic Senate" (Sandra Wilcox); "Mutual Gains Bargaining: Planned Institutional Change" (Maria Curro Kreppel); "The Impact of the California Community College Reform Act on Collective Bargaining" (Gwen Hill); "Faculty Empowerment in an Era of Change: The Union's Role in Implementing the California Community College Reform Act" (Diane Crow); "Relationships between Faculty and Non-Faculty Members of the Same Bargaining Units in the Illinois Public Higher Education System" (Mitchell Vogel); "Higher Education Leadership in the Year 2000" (Clark Kerr); "Developing Faculty Union Leaders" (Mark Blum); and "Retirement Issues for College and University Faculty" (Hans Jenny). (References accompany some papers.) (JDD).

This collection of 18 papers review the fundamentals in collective bargaining in higher education. Areas discussed include arbitration, grievance preparation, the collective bargaining process, diversity, technology, staff bargaining, and faculty and staff participation in employee involvement schemes. An annual legal update is included. The papers are: (1) "Higher Education Collective Bargaining: Issues for the 21st Century" (Stephen Trachtenberg); (2) "Higher Education Unions in a Time of Change: Collective Bargaining and Affirmative Action" (Terry Jones); (3) "Recent Trends in Collective Bargaining in Canada" (Donald C. Savage); (4) "Reflections Upon 25 Years of Faculty Unionism" (Arnold Cantor); (5) "Compulsory Arbitration of Discrimination Claims under Collective Bargaining Agreements" (Nicholas DiGiovanni, Jr.); (6) "Arbitration in Faculty Higher Education" (Nicholas Russo); (7) "Grievance Preparation From the Union Perspective" (C. J. Elder); (8) "Grievance Preparation: A Management Perspective" (Esther Liebert); (9) A Union View of Faculty Collective Bargaining at the Two-Year Institution" (James Rice); (10) "A President Speaks on Faculty Collective Bargaining at the Two-Year Institution" (Salvatore G. Rotella); (11) "Bargaining Under the Shadow of Yeshiva at Hofstra University" (Estelle S. Gellman); (12) "Faculty Collective Bargaining at Adelphi University" (Stephen Goldberg); (13) "A Genuine System of Collegiality Would Tend to Confound Us" (George Sutton); (14) Staff Collective Bargaining in the California State University: Ending the Cycle of Non-stop Bargaining" (Samuel A. Strafaci); (15) "Staff Bargaining in Higher Education" (Brenda Richardson Malone); (16) "Participation in Decision-making in Higher Education: Oxymoron or Opportunity?" (Walter J. Gershenfeld); (17) "The Management Perspective" (Ira Michael Shepard); (18) "The Union Perspective" (David J. Strom and Stephanie Baxter). (LEE)