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Trends In Labor Management Issues At Historically Black Colleges And Universities, Derryn Moten
Trends In Labor Management Issues At Historically Black Colleges And Universities, Derryn Moten
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
The uniqueness of Historically Black Colleges and Universities make achieving collective bargaining on these campuses problematic. All but a handful of black colleges are located in the south, a region with a well-established aversion to organized labor. The South’s history of plantation slavery coupled with feudal peonage labor and Big Mule politics is antithetical with notions of fair wages, reasonable benefits and work hours, and safe working environments. Something similar can be argued about shared governance on the campuses of HBCUs where labor trends favoring union representation of staff trails the success achieved on many Historically White Colleges and Universities …
Shaping Shared Governance For Success At Hbcus, Carrie M. Gavin
Shaping Shared Governance For Success At Hbcus, Carrie M. Gavin
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
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Trends In Labor Management Issues At Historically Black Colleges And Universities, Elizabeth K. Davenport
Trends In Labor Management Issues At Historically Black Colleges And Universities, Elizabeth K. Davenport
Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
The mobilization of workers through unionization has deep historical roots within American society; more so in the northern regions thanin the southern region of this country.Despite these historical roots,some sectors of the American population (i.e., minorities in general and AfricanAmericans in particular) who have experienced various forms of discrimination have not fully participatedin the unionization movement. This is especially true of the faculty in historically
Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). As a result of thevarious forms of discriminationthat not only denied them meaningful participation in the labor market but restricted their economic success, and the segregation that resulted from the …