The purpose of this study is to find the problems of employed female school teachers in district Kulgam. Sample of 100 employed women are selected from different education institutions as 20 Rehaber e Taleem (ReT) female teachers, 40 female teachers, 20 female masters and 20 female lecturers using stratified random sampling. In this study we use…

Fact finders should be called on the scene only when an impasse results in a disagreement over facts. Nevertheless, mediators typically recommend fact-finding regardless of the nature of the impasse. Such a move typically exacerbates the controversy instead of settling it. (Author/IRT)

Presents an analysis of the forces motivating the union and the board of education in the 1979 Washington, D.C. teachers' strike. (IRT)

List of resources for labor studies that includes persons to contact and simulation games. (ND)

Offers 40 suggestions to superintendents and board negotiators who find they are involved in stalled negotiations. (Author/WD)

Recounts the experiences of two substitute teachers who crossed a picket line during a teacher strike in a school district of a small western town. Considers the long-term effects and outcomes of teacher strikes. Questions the feasibility of teacher strikes. (HB)

Recounts what it is like to be a school board member during a teacher strike. (IRT)

A 1979 law enacted by the state of Connecticut in response to a lengthy and bitter teacher strike may have served as a catalyst to improve the negotiation process. The law mandated a mediation process and compulsory binding-interest arbitration. (Author/WD)

Outlines some of the pressures board members can be under during a teacher strike. (IRT)

Three persistent misconceptions about collective bargaining for public employees are 1) that public employee organizations are singularly culpable for strikes in the public sector, 2) that strikes necessarily follow collective bargaining and will not occur unless the right to bargain has been granted, and 3) that public employees have less right…

In 1989, the Japan Teachers' Union, Nikkyoso, split into two unions after 2 years of factional infighting. Japan has two political camps, the governing conservative Liberal Democratic Party and the left-wing Japan Socialist Party. The teachers' union is a powerful member in the camp of the latter. This book incorporates studies of the links…

Outlines circumstances under which it would be advantageous for a school board to initiate an unfair labor practice suit against the teachers' union. (IRT)

Summarizes a study that interviewed 23 support service staff in five schools concerning their views about site-based management. Fully 85% reported that once SBM was introduced, staff roles changed, their opinions and contributions mattered, and students were positively affected. Comments were largely favorable, but certain labor management,…

An ongoing public relations effort can build trust and support for the district's management team among employees and the general public. This trust is especially valuable in the event of a labor dispute. (Published by New Jersey School Boards Association, Box 909, 383 West State Street, Trenton, New Jersey 08605.) (JG)

Team teaching is seen as a device by which school administrators share responsibility with team leaders for major schoolwide plans and decisions, and thus no longer appear solely responsible for a situation (control of the educational work force) which they cannot control. (MJB)