This qualitative study examined whether Goldschmidt and Stuart's (1986) findings that the effects of collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) on decision-making in K-12 public education is greater than previous studies suggest is also applicable to K-12 public education in the Eastern Caribbean (OECS countries). Regime theory and decoloniality were…

This study analyzed the ways the implementation of instructional technology proscribes higher-education faculty work as coded in faculty collective bargaining agreements (CBAs). This study replicates and extends the work on the production politics of teaching and technology completed by Rhoades (1998). Collective bargaining agreements were…

The purpose of this qualitative study is to investigate superintendents' perspectives of the value of formal training in collective bargaining negotiations. Dependent on their responses, one could propose negotiation skills training as a crucial area of need for superintendents. Social interdependence theory provides the theoretical framework…

This qualitative study examines shared governance in Washington State's community and technical colleges and provides an analysis of faculty participation in governance based on formal authority in collective bargaining agreements. Contracts from Washington's thirty community and technical college districts were reviewed in order to identify in…

This dissertation reports the results of a qualitative and quantitative research project that examined the perceptions of fifteen participants, in three separate school districts, concerning interest-based and traditional collective bargaining. The study focused on the relationships between administrators and teachers, as well as the financial…

For five decades, collective bargaining has been implemented in American public schools (Loveless, 2000). It has protected the rights of teachers; and teacher work conditions issues and compensation have improved (Hannaway & Rotherham, 2006). However, improvements have created adversarial labor-management relationships, resulted in excessive…

Administrators and teachers in the Chicago (Illinois) Public Schools disagree significantly on the extent to which administrative prerogatives should be limited, according to statistical analysis of the opinionnaire responses of 162 educators from all of Chicago's 27 public school districts. The respondents were asked to agree or disagree with 25…