Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: The Resolved and Unresolved Questions 1966-2012

By Daniel J. Julius, Executive Director, SUNY Levin Institute; Visting Scholar, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley, State University of New York, Levin Institute. Collective Bargaining in Higher Education: The Resolved and Unresolved Questions1966 – 2012.
This presentation will explore the major research issues, the challenges of studying labor management relations in higher education and outcomes of collective bargaining over the last 45 years. In addition to research questions and challenges, the presentation will examine what is known and not known about the impact of unionization on faculty, graduate students and the institution or systems where bargaining has occurred. Data concerning who is unionized as well as institutional and demographic factors associated with unionization, will be explored. The presentation will conclude with a summary of the major issues (organizational, institutional, programmatic) at the bargaining table where organized faculty and graduate students (in land grant institutions) are presently negotiating.