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In The Beginning, Long Time Ago: A Brief History Of The National Center’S Origin And Evolution, William A. Herbert Mar 2023

In The Beginning, Long Time Ago: A Brief History Of The National Center’S Origin And Evolution, William A. Herbert

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This article presents a brief overview of events leading to the creation of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions (National Center) in 1972 at the City University of New York (CUNY) and then summarizes the National Center’s evolving leadership, programming, research, and publications over the past half-century. The article is tied with the theme of the National Center’s 50th anniversary conference in March 2023: Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Looking Back, Looking Forward: 1973-2023. It demonstrates the uniqueness of the National Center’s origin as a higher education labor-management research center, …


A New Morning In Higher Education Collective Bargaining, 2013-2019, William A. Herbert Nov 2021

A New Morning In Higher Education Collective Bargaining, 2013-2019, William A. Herbert

Publications and Research

This book chapter appears in Julius, D. J. (ed.), Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: Best Practices for Promoting Collaboration, Equity, and Measurable Outcomes (Routledge, New York and London). The chapter analyzes and contextualizes data concerning the growth in unionization and collective bargaining involving faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate assistants from 2013 to 2019, the period between the economic fallout from the Great Recession and the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses the democratic values underlying collective bargaining and the historical and legal development of unionization at public and private institutions over the decades. It identifies three significant new trends …


The History Books Tell It? Collective Bargaining In Higher Education In The 1940s, William A. Herbert Jan 2018

The History Books Tell It? Collective Bargaining In Higher Education In The 1940s, William A. Herbert

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This article presents a history of unionization and collective bargaining in higher education during and just after World War II, decades before the establishment of statutory frameworks for labor representation. It examines the collective bargaining program adopted by the University of Illinois in 1945, along with contracts negotiated at other institutions, which demonstrated support for employee self-organization. It will also presents counter-examples of institutions using the courts and congressional investigators to defeat unionization efforts. . Lastly, the article will examine the role of United Public Workers of America (UPWA) and its predecessor unions in organizing and negotiating on behalf of …


Workshop: Training On Unionization And Collective Bargaining For Academic Labor - Handout: Which Form Will Your Negotiations Take (R. Ufberg) Aug 2017

Workshop: Training On Unionization And Collective Bargaining For Academic Labor - Handout: Which Form Will Your Negotiations Take (R. Ufberg)

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

No abstract provided.


Workshop: Training On Unionization And Collective Bargaining For Academic Labor - Handout: Scenario For Private Contract Campaign Aug 2017

Workshop: Training On Unionization And Collective Bargaining For Academic Labor - Handout: Scenario For Private Contract Campaign

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

No abstract provided.


Workshop: Training On Unionization And Collective Bargaining For Academic Labor - Handout: Contract Campaign Act I Aug 2017

Workshop: Training On Unionization And Collective Bargaining For Academic Labor - Handout: Contract Campaign Act I

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

No abstract provided.


Workshop: Training On Unionization And Collective Bargaining For Academic Labor - Handout: Agenda Aug 2017

Workshop: Training On Unionization And Collective Bargaining For Academic Labor - Handout: Agenda

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Workshop Agenda


Workshop: Training On Unionization And Collective Bargaining For Administrators, Nicholas Digiovanni Aug 2017

Workshop: Training On Unionization And Collective Bargaining For Administrators, Nicholas Digiovanni

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Negotiating a First Collective Bargaining Agreement


I. Importance of the Initial Collective Bargaining Agreement

II. Establishing Institutional Goals and Principles

III. First Considerations at the Table: Ground rules

IV. Key Contract Building Blocks for the Administration

V. Other Clauses of Particular Value to the Union

VII. Miscellaneous Concerns


Academic Collective Bargaining: Patterns And Trends, Curtis R. Sproul, Neil Bucklew, Jeffery D. Houghton Feb 2015

Academic Collective Bargaining: Patterns And Trends, Curtis R. Sproul, Neil Bucklew, Jeffery D. Houghton

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Educational services, particularly higher education, has slowly and methodically become one of the most heavily unionized segments, with much greater representation than traditional labor segments. Despite these changes, the increase in academic collective bargaining has not been well documented. Consequently, the purpose of the current paper is to examine recent trends in academic collective bargaining and to compare these trends with the current unionization and collective bargaining situation in other major industries in the United States. We begin with a comparative analysis of unionization in the United States by industry. The summary data we present indicate that the educational services …


The Impact Of Unionization On University Performance, Mark Cassell, Odeh Halaseh Feb 2015

The Impact Of Unionization On University Performance, Mark Cassell, Odeh Halaseh

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This study examines faculty unions’ impact on the organizational efficiency and effectiveness of public four-year institutions of higher learning. The article theorizes the causal connections between faculty unions to higher education performance. The study also presents results of a cross-sectional time series analysis and a cross-sectional analysis of higher education performance using data from the Department of Education’s Integrated Post Secondary Data System (IPEDS) spanning more than two decades and over 430 public universities and colleges. We find support for the view that unionization improves organizational efficiency and effectiveness. At the same time the research raises important methodological and substantive …


Wage Distribution Impacts Of Higher Education Faculty Unionization, Charles S. Wassell Jr., David W. Hedrick, Steven E. Henson, John M. Krieg Jan 2015

Wage Distribution Impacts Of Higher Education Faculty Unionization, Charles S. Wassell Jr., David W. Hedrick, Steven E. Henson, John M. Krieg

Economics Faculty Scholarship

The literature on the effects of unions on the distribution of wages at the macroeconomic and inter-industry levels has given little attention to the effects at the firm level. At the same time, research on collective bargaining impacts in higher education has focused on the overall wage level rather than on the distribution of salaries. Using panel data on individual faculty members, we find faculty unionization to be associated with a significant flattening of the wage distribution across academic disciplines. This has implications for why faculty might choose to unionize, even in the absence of an overall wage premium.


The Impact Of Unionization On University Performance: A Cross-Sectional Time Series Analysis, Mark K. Cassell Aug 2013

The Impact Of Unionization On University Performance: A Cross-Sectional Time Series Analysis, Mark K. Cassell

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

In 1968 the union movement in higher education was launched on the CUNY campuses in New York when CUNY held the first academic labor union election on an “integrated, heterogeneous, multi-campus system” (Ladd and Lipset 1973). In the nearly five decades since that historic election, unionization has grown to cover more than a third of all public four-year institutions and 40 percent of faculty at those public institutions (see Figure 1). While unionization is more common at larger institutions, Figure 1 illustrates that even among the smallest public institutions, unionization has increased over time.


Update, 2013: What You Should Know About “Right To Work” Laws, University Of Maine Mar 2013

Update, 2013: What You Should Know About “Right To Work” Laws, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

This was a brief 2013 update to the Bureau of Labor Education’s (BLE) 2011 briefing paper, “The Truth about ‘Right to Work’ Laws". There were two major new points in this update: 1) the addition of two more states to the number of states with right-to-work laws, and 2) a review of a recent study of the effects of RTW laws on workers’ wages and benefits.


Oklahoma, Maine, Migration And “Right To Work”: A Confused And Misleading Analysis, University Of Maine Apr 2012

Oklahoma, Maine, Migration And “Right To Work”: A Confused And Misleading Analysis, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

A University of Maine report that revealed the confused and misleading nature of an article released by the Maine Heritage Policy Center (MHPC): “The Case for Right-to-Work in Maine: Examining the Evidence in Oklahoma” (1/23/2012)


The Truth About "Right To Work" Laws, University Of Maine Apr 2011

The Truth About "Right To Work" Laws, University Of Maine

General University of Maine Publications

This paper explored the following issues: a) what is meant by “right to work;” b) the legal issues involved in union membership and right-to-work; c) impacts of right-to-work laws, including comparisons of right-to-work vs. “free-bargaining” states, and d) the history of earlier right-to-work attempts in Maine.


The Ursinus Weekly, November 6, 1975, Ruth Von Kummer, Nancy Weatherwax, Robert Brant, Rae Blake, Stephen M. Lange, James Grosh, Alan Stetler, George Geist, Joseph Saraco, Donald R. Whittaker, Jina Jones Nov 1975

The Ursinus Weekly, November 6, 1975, Ruth Von Kummer, Nancy Weatherwax, Robert Brant, Rae Blake, Stephen M. Lange, James Grosh, Alan Stetler, George Geist, Joseph Saraco, Donald R. Whittaker, Jina Jones

Ursinus Weekly Newspaper, 1902-1978

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