Research Catalog

Title

Academic collective bargaining / edited by Ernst Benjamin and Michael Mauer.

Publication

Washington, DC : The American Association of University Professors ; New York : The Modern Language Association of America, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• American Association of University Professors.
• Benjamin, Ernst, 1937-
• Mauer, Michael.
• Modern Language Association of America.

Description

vii, 410 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Contributors to this volume aim to educate readers about the historical and practical contexts of collective bargaining. The essays collected here explore the perspectives, successes, failures, and approaches of those who have collectively bargained so that readers can assess the pros and cons of unionization."--Jacket.

Subject

Collective bargaining > College teachers > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Faculty Bargaining -- Graduate Assistants' Bargaining -- A Primer on Academic Organizing -- Prospects for Full-Time Faculty Organizing at Private Universities and Colleges -- Faculty Representation without Collective Bargaining -- Contingent Faculty Organizing and Representation -- Graduate Employee Organizing and Representation -- Primer on Organizational Development -- Collective Bargaining -- Making Collective Bargaining Work -- Collective Bargaining Agreements: Legal and Organizational Issues -- Grievance and Arbitration -- The Collective Agreement: Economic Issues -- The Collective Agreement: Negotiating Redbook Principles -- Keys to the Development of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties (APSCUF) -- A Worst-Case Scenario -- Professionalism, Inclusiveness, and Accountability in Collective Bargaining -- After the Contract: Vigilance -- We Want a New Deal: Reflections on Organizing and Bargaining at Roosevelt University -- From Cynicism to Commitment: The Impact of Collective Bargaining and Campus Climate on Contingent Faculty Members -- Balancing Act: Challenges of Administering the Contractual Rights of Temporary Faculty Members -- Campus Union Coalitions and the Corporate University: Organizing at the University of California -- Observations on an Unsuccessful Organizing Drive at Cornell University -- Getting a Contract versus Gaining a Voice: Some Obstacles to Forming Effective Graduate-Student-Employee Unions -- What I Learned in a Bargaining Year.

ISBN

• 0873529723 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780873529723 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005036187

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Harvard Library