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)

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.

An educational crisis from its origins to present-day experiences In the United States today, almost three-quarters of the people teaching in two- and four-year colleges and universities work as contingent faculty. They share the hardships endemic in the gig economy: lack of job security and health care, professional disrespect, and poverty wages that require them to juggle multiple jobs. This collection draws on a wide range of perspectives to examine the realities of the contingent faculty system through the lens of labor history. Essayists investigate structural changes that have caused the use of contingent faculty to skyrocket and illuminate how precarity shapes day-to-day experiences in the academic workplace. Other essays delve into the ways contingent faculty engage in collective action and other means to resist austerity measures, improve their working conditions, and instigate reforms in higher education. By challenging contingency, this volume issues a clear call to reclaim higher education’s public purpose. Interdisciplinary in approach and multifaceted in perspective, Contingent Faculty and the Remaking of Higher Education surveys the adjunct system and its costs. Contributors: Gwendolyn Alker, Diane Angell, Joe Berry, Sue Doe, Eric Fure-Slocum, Claire Goldstene, Trevor Griffey, Erin Hatton, William A. Herbert, Elizabeth Hohl, Miguel Juárez, Aimee Loiselle, Maria C. Maisto, Anne McLeer, Steven Parfitt, Jiyoon Park, Claire Raymond, Gary Rhoades, Jeff Schuhrke, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, Steven Shulman, Joseph van der Naald, Anne Wiegard, Naomi R Williams, and Helena Worthen

Report on collective bargaining and trade unionization of higher education teachers in the USA - evaluates some recent trends, etc. References.

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)