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2014-09-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress concerns for September of 2014.

2014-08-06 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress concerns for August 8, 2014.

2014-08-04 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for August 4, 2014.

2014-08-04 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter of August 4, 2014.

2014-08-00 Concerns, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress concerns for August of 2014.

2014-07-07 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for July 7, 2014.

2014-07-07 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for July 7, 2014.

2014-06-02 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for June 2, 2014.

2014-06-02 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for June 2, 2014.

2014-05-05 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for May 5, 2014.

2014-05-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for May of 2014.

2014-04-07 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for April 7, 2014.

2014-04-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for April of 2014.

2014-03-10 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for March 10, 2014.

2014-03-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for March of 2014.

2014-02-03 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for February 3, 2014.

2014-02-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for February of 2014.

Negotiating For Curriculum & Class Size, 2011-13: One Faculty Union’S Perspective, Steve Hicks, Amy L. Rosenberger

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The article walks the reader through the process of proposing, revising, and finally accepting by both sides of a new clause in the APSCUF-PASSHE collective bargaining agreement covering curriculum and class size. The clause took multiple forms over the course of over two years of negotiations and reveals the evolving priorities of the two sides over time.

Bargaining Market Equity Adjustments By Rank And Discipline, Jonathan P. Blitz, Jeffrey F. Cross

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Faculty contract negotiations generally include wages, hours, and other conditions of employment as well as mutually agreed non-mandatory subjects of bargaining. Negotiators typically address wages in terms of across-the-board increases, promotion in rank, merit increases, and one-time signing bonuses. Less typically, faculty salary negotiations include various forms of equity adjustments and salary increases linked to the underlying market and social forces and to salary compression that may, or may not, be related to these forces. The authors describe how they negotiated differential discipline-specific target salaries based in part on College and University Personnel Association faculty salary data.

Collective Begging At Its Best: Labor-Management Relations In South Dakota, Gary Aguiar

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Public employee labor unions in South Dakota possess a feeble set of bargaining rights, so weak it should be considered “collective begging.” However, our recent contract contains significant victories despite decades of playing defense. What lessons can be learned from this experience that might help other similarly situated faculty unions? What does this case study teach us about the disparity of power, especially where labor has fewer legal and political tools than management? I apply DiGiovanni’s (2011) typology of “intangible influences” on collective bargaining to explain our success. As DiGiovanni predicts, history and timing played a large role in influencing …

Organizational Culture, Knowledge Structures, And Relational Messages In Organizational Negotiation: A Systems Approach, Vincent P. Cavataio, Robert S. Hinck

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This study examines a recent bargaining process between the Faculty Association and Central Michigan University. Taking a systems approach, we began with the assumption that a healthy organizational culture produces negative feedback which can help keep participants at the bargaining table despite disagreement. However, if organizational members’ relationships are threatened, organizational culture unravels as destructive messages provide positive feedback to disrupt the system and make impasse more likely. To understand how an university’s culture is impacted during contract negotiations we examined messages published in a university student newspaper, transcripts from the local NPR station, CMU’s press releases, a Facebook page, …

Shelter From The Storm: Rekindling Research On Collective Bargaining And Representation Issues, William A. Herbert

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

The National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions (National Center) is a four-decade old institution that is supported by and located at Hunter College, City University of New York. The National Center was founded in the wake of the granting of collective bargaining rights by various states and localities to public employees including higher education faculty members and shortly after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) asserted jurisdiction over private institutions of higher education.

Consistent with its mission, the National Center intends to be an engine for rekindling, incubating and promoting research and …

Positive Collaboration: Beyond Labor Conflict And Labor Peace, Richard Boris

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Institutions of higher education collectively constitute a major economic concentration that ranks—by whatever measure: resources, budgets, endowments, employees, constituencies—among the major industries in the United States. The unionized academic U.S. workforce ranks sixth among organized labor. Yet, when compared to the top-tier manufacturing industries of steel or automobile or to national unions such as the UAW or the Teamsters, both the public institutions of higher education and their academic unions lack national visibility, lack influence on national debates, and, most tellingly, lack major successes in the quest for public monies. Health care, the environment, energy policies, and the current global …

2014-01-13 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for January 13, 2014.

2014-01-13 Staff Congress By-Laws Revised, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress By-Laws revised on January 13, 2014.

2014-01-00 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for January of 2014.

2013-12-02 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for December 2, 2013.

2013-12-02 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for December 2, 2013.

2013-11-04 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress meeting minutes for November 4, 2013.

2013-10-11 Newsletter, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

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Staff Congress newsletter for October 11, 2013.