WHITE-COLLAR UNION-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS: A STUDY OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS

SAHAB DAYAL

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DOI: 10.2190/C2P7-33GT-5RJK-F2UC

Abstract

Union membership among college professors, and collective bargaining in higher education, have both registered a significant growth in the last two decades. This article presents and analyzes the bargaining priorities, perceptions, and opinions of professors in a major public university. Using three separate survey questionnaires and interviews during the 1980s, this study finds that unionized professors' bargaining objectives and goals go beyond the traditional bread-and-butter, economic issues. Concerns for academic freedom seem preeminent, and the upshot of the bargaining perceptions is represented in strong correlations between academic freedom and procedures for initial hiring, fairness in personnel actions after a professor is hired, and mechanisms for resolving decisions perceived to be arbitrary or capricious.

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