Abstract
Questionnaire responses of a large educational faculty in a private university were used to examine support for collective bargaining and several propositions about unionism. The little existing research on specific schools within universities suggests that education faculties modestly support unionism, with tenure related negatively to it. Parametric and nonparametric analyses of data from this faculty revealed considerably different results, including far greater union support and tenure's positive relationship with unionism. This investigation suggests that theorizing about unionism and collective bargaining within the schools of universities, such as schools of education, needs to be reconsidered.
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Kazlow, C., Giacquinta, J. Tenure, support of collective bargaining, and unionism in higher education: Some challenging findings. Res High Educ 6, 45–63 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00992015
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00992015