This paper is a synopsis of the opinions of the Supreme Court Justices in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, which held that states could properly allow agency shop provisions in public sector unionism, and an analysis of some of the problems unions will face in implementing the agency shop. (Author/IRT)

Reviews the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in City of Madison, Joint School District No. 8 v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission, and discusses the probable effect of that decision on public employers and public employee unions, focusing in particular on public school districts and teachers. (JG)

Summarizes legal arguments dealing with public employee collective bargaining in an attempt to explain variations in state bargaining laws. A discrimination analysis model is then used to determine which nonlegal factors affect the enactment of collective bargaining legislation for public school teachers. (Available from Baywood Publishing…

Reviews the legal rulings and statutes that have shaped public employee labor relations in Texas since the late 19th century. In the absence of one comprehensive labor/management act, Texas has many diverse laws and precedents that affect the public employee. Available from Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., 43 Central Drive, Farmingdale, NY 11735;…

Investigates the pattern of strikes among public school teachers from 1946 to 1973. Changes in the frequency of teacher strikes were found to be highly responsive to changes in the economic and legal conditions surrounding the collective bargaining relationship. For availability, see EA 507 548. (Author)

The document is comprised of articles of agreement and addenda by and between the County of Rensselaer and the Board of Trustees of Hudson Valley Community College as co-employers and the College Unit of Local 842 Civil Service Employees Association, Inc. ("union"). The articles address topics such as affirmative action, recognition and…

Many State legislatures in 1973 eliminated sex-discriminatory unemployment insurance law provisions, mainly pregnancy and marital or domestic obligation provisions. A table includes coverage of all State unemployment insurance laws and selected characteristics. Other changes covered benefit amounts, qualifying requirements, disqualification and…

National Laws and practices regarding paid educational leaves are reviewed based on questionnaire responses from sixty-one member states of the International Labour Office. (MS)

A special report on the handling of dismissal cases in U.S. law, contract, and custom. (Editor)

Institutions who justify a wage differential between male and female custodians on the basis that women typically do the lighter work, and men the heavier, can find themselves in trouble. The Equal Pay Act of 1963 requires that men and women get the same pay for equal work -- and all custodial work is substantially equal to the Labor Department.…

Presents developments in grievance arbitration in government employment by examining all public sector arbitration cases from 1971 through 1979. Predicts that issues of employee discipline and discharge will comprise the largest number of cases proceeding to arbitration. (Author/MLF)

Considers rulings by more than 15 state supreme courts in which state legislation permitting public sector bargaining and arbitration was found to be constitutional. Denounces judicial approval of this legislation, arguing that the laws oppose Lockian traditions of constitutional representative government and are a threat to democracy. (PGD)

Evidence suggests that living and labor conditions have improved very little among agricultural laborers and are particularly hopeless among migrants. Since the government, food producers, industry, and consumers are all beneficiaries of the present farm system, it is unlikely that farm workers will be able to unionize and control their own…