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Taup's 50-Year Collective Bargaining Story, Arthur Hochner Mar 2024

Taup's 50-Year Collective Bargaining Story, Arthur Hochner

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

In the half-century history of faculty collective bargaining at Temple University, the Temple Association of University Professionals has faced numerous challenges. As a union leader for 31 of those years, I took part in many contract negotiations with tough-minded management representatives, including two long strikes. As universities have shifted away from tenure-track faculty toward more contingent ones, both full- and part-time, TAUP has made key adjustments and has grown. While I am now retired from Temple and the union, my successors continue to maintain faculty voice.


Collective Bargaining Among Undergraduate Students, Daniel J. Julius, Nicholas Digiovanni Jr., Jai Abrams Mar 2024

Collective Bargaining Among Undergraduate Students, Daniel J. Julius, Nicholas Digiovanni Jr., Jai Abrams

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The questions we are focusing on in this essay concern; 1) to what extent are undergraduate students being organized for purposes of collective bargaining or covered by labor agreements (there are two major formats, first, unions comprised of only undergraduates and, secondly, where undergraduates are hired into employee classifications already represented by bargaining agents; the latter more common than many might expect) and 2), what impact, if any, does membership or involvement in unionization influence the undergraduate student experience (graduation and attrition rates, alumni involvement, positive or negative attitudes toward faculty or the institution, compensation, tuition, class time, shared governance, …


Protecting Academic Freedom Through Collective Bargaining: An Aaup Perspective, Michael Mauer Mar 2023

Protecting Academic Freedom Through Collective Bargaining: An Aaup Perspective, Michael Mauer

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

AAUP’s turn to collective bargaining grew out of a more expansive view of unionization than is typical for American labor unions. The mission of the AAUP incorporates addressing economic matters, as does the purpose of unions generally. But the AAUP adopted collective bargaining as a means of protecting and expanding the professional interests of the profession. This paper surveys the various approaches that AAUP chapters have used to accomplish the safeguarding and expansion of academic freedom.


Asymmetries In The Bargaining Process, Margaret E. Winters Mar 2022

Asymmetries In The Bargaining Process, Margaret E. Winters

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Although both sides in academic collective bargaining state that they are interested in the best interests of the institution, there are, of course, differences as to what these interests are and how they are to be achieved. Some of the divergences are differences of degree (the union may look for much larger raises for the economic good of their members and the administration team may look to maintain economic viability for the institution), while others are differences of kind, asymmetries in the process. The present paper considers the latter kind of difference, considering the teams, their planning processes, and their …


Working In Coalition, And Wall-To-Wall: The New Progressive Normal, Gary Rhoades May 2021

Working In Coalition, And Wall-To-Wall: The New Progressive Normal, Gary Rhoades

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

As the U.S. starts to come out of the pandemic, public declamations about and private deliberations within colleges and universities are framed in part by negotiating getting back to some form of “normal.” At the center of and delimiting these labor/management negotiations is an all-too-familiar master narrative articulated by management invoking a “new normal,” a time of conditions and challenges borne of, transmitted by, and/or accelerated and amplified due to Covid-19. Yet, I suggest that yet another iteration of disaster/disastrous academic capitalism is neither called for nor does it offer a compelling future for higher education. In addition, there is …


Post-Pandemic Collective Bargaining In Higher Education: An Irresistible Force Meeting And Immovable Object?, James Ottavio Castagnera May 2021

Post-Pandemic Collective Bargaining In Higher Education: An Irresistible Force Meeting And Immovable Object?, James Ottavio Castagnera

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Rider and the AAUP were last at the table for a full-fledged renegotiation of their contract during the summer of 2017.The bargaining was concessionary, as my university --- like so many small-to-medium sized private colleges --- struggled with a looming deficit. Last year, no doubt, the union and its members looked forward to a return to the table with high hopes of recuperating some of those 2017 concessions. But, as Humphrey Bogart once famously observed, fate took a hand.


Organizing Of Teaching Faculty In Private Higher Education Bucks A Long-Standing Historical Trend In American Unionization, James Castagnera Mar 2020

Organizing Of Teaching Faculty In Private Higher Education Bucks A Long-Standing Historical Trend In American Unionization, James Castagnera

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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A Different Set Of Rules? Nlrb Proposed Rule Making And Student Worker Unionization Rights, William A. Herbert, Joseph Van Der Naald Mar 2020

A Different Set Of Rules? Nlrb Proposed Rule Making And Student Worker Unionization Rights, William A. Herbert, Joseph Van Der Naald

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This article presents data, precedent, and empirical evidence relevant to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) proposal to issue a new rule to exclude graduate assistants and other student employees from coverage under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The analysis in three parts. First, the authors show through an analysis of information from other federal agencies that the adoption of the proposed NLRB rule would exclude over 81,000 graduate assistants on private campuses from the right to unionize and engage in collective bargaining. Second, the article presents a legal history from the past half-century about unionization of student employees …


Bargaining For Adjuncts: An Assessment Of Adjunct Union Growth In The Saint Louis Region, Jameson Ramirez Jan 2019

Bargaining For Adjuncts: An Assessment Of Adjunct Union Growth In The Saint Louis Region, Jameson Ramirez

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Minimum-wage labor is no longer confined to sectors once associated with low-skill occupations. In college classrooms across the United States, we are witness to the rise of a “gig-economy” among faculty positions where highly skilled work is being completed by part-time workers known commonly as adjuncts. Despite performing highly-skilled work, adjuncts are compensated at the levels of low-skilled workers. Lack of access to benefits, capricious contract agreements, and a general sense of feeling dispensable are common themes to the adjunct experience. The aim of this paper is to address the concerns of adjuncts and suggest some workable solutions to their …


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 …


Monetary Compensation Of Full-Time Faculty At American Public Regional Universities: The Impact Of Geography And The Existence Of Collective Bargaining, Stephen G. Katsinas, Johnson A. Ogun, Nathaniel J. Bray Jan 2017

Monetary Compensation Of Full-Time Faculty At American Public Regional Universities: The Impact Of Geography And The Existence Of Collective Bargaining, Stephen G. Katsinas, Johnson A. Ogun, Nathaniel J. Bray

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This paper examines monetary compensation of 127,222 full-time faculty employed by the 390 regional universities in the United States who are members of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities. Compensation data published by the U.S. Department of Education and organizations concerned with faculty, including the American Association of University Professors and others, typically lump all four-year public university faculty together, ignoring well-known differences in teaching workloads at different types of public four-year universities (four instead of two courses taught each term, etc.). Further, many compensation studies do not examine fringe benefits, which are 30 percent of total monetary …


Panel Handout: Microaggressions And Implicit Bias On Campus - Microaggression Theory: A Selected Bibliography 2016, Barbara Diamond Oct 2016

Panel Handout: Microaggressions And Implicit Bias On Campus - Microaggression Theory: A Selected Bibliography 2016, Barbara Diamond

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Microaggressions And Implicit Bias On Campus - Implicit Bias: A Selected Biography 2016, Barbara Diamond Oct 2016

Panel Handout: Microaggressions And Implicit Bias On Campus - Implicit Bias: A Selected Biography 2016, Barbara Diamond

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Microaggressionsand Implicit Bias On Campus - Microaggressions And Disability, Barbara Diamond Oct 2016

Workshop: Microaggressionsand Implicit Bias On Campus - Microaggressions And Disability, Barbara Diamond

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Dual Credit And Enrollment Issues At Community Colleges - A Case Study: Erie Community College, Kristin Klein Wheaton Oct 2016

Panel: Dual Credit And Enrollment Issues At Community Colleges - A Case Study: Erie Community College, Kristin Klein Wheaton

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Dual Credit And Enrollment Issues At Community Colleges, Alec Thomson Oct 2016

Panel: Dual Credit And Enrollment Issues At Community Colleges, Alec Thomson

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Best Practices In Arbitration Of Higher Education Issues, Rosemary Townley Oct 2016

Panel Handout: Best Practices In Arbitration Of Higher Education Issues, Rosemary Townley

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Year In Higher Education, Jerry Cutler Oct 2016

Panel Handout: Year In Higher Education, Jerry Cutler

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Pensions And Health Insurance Savings For Contingent Faculty, William Shimer Oct 2016

Panel Handout: Pensions And Health Insurance Savings For Contingent Faculty, William Shimer

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates - Rutgers And Aaup Post-Doc Cba Oct 2016

Panel Handout: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates - Rutgers And Aaup Post-Doc Cba

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates - The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited Oct 2016

Panel Handout: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates - The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates - Breaking The Silence: The Unionization Of Post-Doctorate Workers At The University Of California, Sayil Camacho, Robert Rhoads Oct 2016

Panel: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates - Breaking The Silence: The Unionization Of Post-Doctorate Workers At The University Of California, Sayil Camacho, Robert Rhoads

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates, Karen Rosenberg Oct 2016

Panel: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates, Karen Rosenberg

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates, Sayil Camacho, Jerome Kukor, Amy Lee, Karen Rosenberg Oct 2016

Panel: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates, Sayil Camacho, Jerome Kukor, Amy Lee, Karen Rosenberg

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Annual Legal Update (2016), Aaron Nisenson Oct 2016

Annual Legal Update (2016), Aaron Nisenson

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Best Practices In Labor-Management Committees In Higher Education, Sally Klingel Oct 2016

Workshop: Best Practices In Labor-Management Committees In Higher Education, Sally Klingel

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Transforming The Collective Bargaining Process At Florida Gulf Coast University, Elizabeth Elliott Oct 2016

Panel: Transforming The Collective Bargaining Process At Florida Gulf Coast University, Elizabeth Elliott

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Discrimination And Harassment Issues In Higher Education, Jason Walta Oct 2016

Panel Handout: Discrimination And Harassment Issues In Higher Education, Jason Walta

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Discrimination And Harassment Issues In Higher Education, Jill Rosenberg Oct 2016

Panel: Discrimination And Harassment Issues In Higher Education, Jill Rosenberg

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Discrimination And Harassment Issues In Higher Education - Recent Tenure Discrimination Federal Court Decisions, Merrick Rossein Oct 2016

Panel: Discrimination And Harassment Issues In Higher Education - Recent Tenure Discrimination Federal Court Decisions, Merrick Rossein

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

No abstract provided.