scholarly journals Sessional Contract Faculty, Unionization, and Academic Freedom

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Stephanie Ross ◽  
Larry Savage ◽  
James Watson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Bargaining Unit ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Faculty Unionization ◽  
Union Status ◽  
University Policies ◽  
Faculty Association ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between unionization and academic freedom protections for sessional faculty in Ontario universities. Specifically, we compare university policies and contract provisions with a view to determining whether unionized sessionals hired on a per-course basis have stronger academic freedom protections than their non-union counterparts. We then explore whether particular kinds of bargaining unit structures are more conducive to achieving stronger academic freedom provisions. Finally, we consider whether academic freedom can be exercised effectively by sessionals, whether unionized or not. We conclude that unionization does help to produce stronger academic freedom protections for sessionalfaculty and that faculty association bargaining unit structures are most likely to help deliver this outcome. We further conclude that academic freedom is difficult to exercise for sessional faculty, regardless of union status, but that unionization offers greater protections for sessionals facing repercussions as a result of asserting their academic freedom.

Trade Union Membership and Job Satisfaction

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 160-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Bluen ◽  
Caroline van Zwam
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Worker Satisfaction ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Moderating Role

The relationship between union membership and job satisfaction, and the moderating role of race and sex is considered in this study. Results show that both race and sex interact with union membership in predicting job satisfaction. A significant 2 × 2 × 2 (union membership × race × sex) interaction showed that white, non-unionized females were less satisfied with their work than black, non-unionized females. In addition, sex moderated the relationship between union membership and co-worker satisfaction: Whereas unionized males were more satisfied with their co-workers than unionized females, the opposite was true for the non-unionized subjects. Finally, union members and non-members differed regarding promotion opportunities: Union members were more satisfied with their promotion opportunities than non-union members. On the basis of the findings, implications and future research priorities are discussed.

Faculty Are Not Employees

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Holden Thorp ◽  
Buck Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Shared Governance ◽  
Tenured Faculty ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The role of faculty forms the heart of the university in terms of its scholarship, patient care, and teaching. It is important that the university and the faculty rededicate themselves to outstanding teaching; the erosion of teaching by tenured faculty is contributing to the strain in the relationship with the public. Tenure, academic freedom, and shared governance are all indispensable concepts in the functioning of a great university that are mysterious to those outside the academy. Communicating the importance of these concepts is a critical need for higher education.

Answering Skeptics

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-145
Author(s):  
David Madland
Keyword(s):  
Labor Unions ◽  
Union Density ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bargaining Unit ◽  
Finance Reform ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
The Us ◽  
Labor System ◽  
New System

This chapter considers whether the new labor system could work as intended in the United States and whether alternative policies could better address the country's economic and political problems. It reviews some of the likely implementation challenges the new system would face, including determining the appropriate bargaining unit in a broad-based system and relationship friction between national and local unions, and finds, based on the US historical experience, that the challenges are likely manageable. It also reviews alternatives to the new labor system and argues that while most would be helpful, all have limitations. Other strategies to strengthen labor, such as increased organizing by unions and banning right-to-work laws, are necessary but on their own would not sufficiently increase union density or dramatically increase collective bargaining coverage. Non-union policies — from increased training to a jobs guarantee to campaign finance reform — would do less to raise wages, reduce inequality, or increase political voice. These often rely on strong labor unions to work best. All told, the new labor system is practical and necessary.

scholarly journals THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES IN WINNIPEG: THE WORKERS ORGANIZING AND RESOURCE CENTRE

Just Labour ◽  
1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Bickerton ◽  
Catherine Stearns
Keyword(s):  
Trade Unions ◽  
Sole Source ◽  
Social Activist ◽  
Advocacy Organizations ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Social Activists ◽  
National Office ◽  
Postal Workers ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
The Relationship

In most communities the relationship between trade unions and social activist organizations is usually underdeveloped and uneven. Likewise trade unions usually have no organic connections to unorganized workers and contribute little to the task of representing these workers in their struggles against employers and government agencies. The Workers Organizing and Resource Centre (WORC), a collective administered by trade unionists and social activists, is an attempt to bridge this solitude. Since it was established in 1998, WORC has been the home to numerous working class advocacy organizations and a hub of progressive activity in Winnipeg. Its mandate is to facilitate the development of community organizations, provide advocacy work for non union workers, and to assist in organizing the unorganized. This paper describes the function that WORC plays in the Winnipeg progressive community and discusses the relationship to its sole source of funding, the national office of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. Dans la plupart des communautés, les relations entre les syndicats et les autres organisations d’action sociale sont habituellement sous-développées et inégales. Les syndicats n’ont habituellement pas de lien organique avec les travailleurs et les travailleuses non syndiqués et ne contribuent guère à leur représentation dans les luttes qu’ils livrent aux employeurs et aux organismes gouvernementaux. Le Workers Organizing and Resource Centre (WORC), collectif administré par des militantes et militants syndicaux et sociaux, tente de combler cette lacune. Depuis sa création, en 1998, le WORC a accueilli de nombreuses organisations militantes de la classe travailleuse et a constitué une plaque tournante de l’activité progressiste à Winnipeg. Il a pour mandat de faciliter le développement d’organisations communautaires, d’attribuer des tâches de défense de cause aux travailleurs et travailleuses non syndiqués et d’aider à la syndicalisation des personnes non syndiquées. L’article décrit le rôle que le WORC joue dans la communauté progressiste de Winnipeg et le rapport qu’il entretient avec son unique source de fonds, qui est le bureau national du Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses des postes

Arms

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Zick
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
The Other ◽  
Second Amendment ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Right ◽  
Free Speech Rights ◽  
University Classrooms ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Speech Clause

Chapter 7 addresses the relationship between the Free Speech Clause and the Second Amendment’s right to “keep and bear Arms.” Relative to the other non-speech rights examined in the book, recognition of an individual right to keep and bear arms occurred relatively recently (the Supreme Court recognized the right in 2008). As a result, the relationship between free speech and Second Amendment rights is still developing. The chapter focuses primarily on two aspects of their intersection. The first is the extent to which the nature and scope of Second Amendment rights ought to be modeled on Free Speech Clause doctrines and principles. The chapter considers the pros and (mostly) cons of “borrowing” the Free Speech Clause for this purpose. The second aspect of the relationship between the Free Speech Clause and the Second Amendment relates to potential conflicts between them. The chapter addresses two tension points—the effect on free speech of openly carrying firearms at public protests and demonstrations, and the effect on academic freedom and inquiry from the presence of firearms in university classrooms. The chapter argues that the future of the Second Amendment will not be determined by explicit borrowing of Free Speech Clause doctrines. However, in terms of constructing the modern right to keep and bear arms, there is much we can learn from the nation’s long experience with free speech rights.

Academic Freedom and the Standards of Behavior

2007 ◽  
pp. 80-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya. Kouzminov ◽  
M. Yudkevich
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Dynamic Model ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
University Management ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

The article analyzes the activity of university lecturer and researcher and the need for special mechanisms providing its efficiency. The authors consider academic freedom as a parameter of the university’s environment and discuss the convention regulating the relationship between lecturers and university management. The factors of the destruction of this convention are analyzed. The dynamic model of the lecturers’ behavior is proposed and two scenarios for the future development ("teaching ratchet" and "academic ratchet") as well as the factors of choice between them are discussed. The empirical data on the development and current state of the Russian educational system is also taken into account.

Does Academic Freedom Protect Antisemitism?

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-46
Author(s):  
Cary Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
American Association ◽  
Moral Legitimacy ◽  
Personnel Decisions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Working Definition ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The examples listed in the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Working Definition of Antisemitism suggests that some political views common in humanities and social science disciplines are antisemitic. In some disciplines, these views are well estab­lished in both teaching and publication. Yet the American Association of University Pro­fessors has long used prevailing disciplinary views as a guide to which faculty statements cannot be sanctioned. What should universities do when not just individual faculty, but entire disciplines have been captured by radical antizionism, when students are taught that Israel has no moral legitimacy and must be eliminated? How should personnel decisions be affected? Should this evolving situation lead us to rethink the relationship between advo­cacy and indoctrination? Can universities keep the search for the truth at the core of their mission in the wake of disciplinary solidarity behind antisemitism?

Union De-Recognition and Declining Union Density in Britain

ILR Review ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip B. Beaumont ◽  
Richard I. D. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Union Density ◽  
Company Size ◽  
Organizational Changes ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Union Status ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Substantial Decline ◽  
The Relationship

In Britain, where there are no representation elections and management's recognition of unions is entirely voluntary, a substantial decline in union density since 1979 has been in part attributed to increased instances of union de-recognition by management. This study examines the relationship between union density and union de-recognition at the individual establishment level through an analysis of the panel data set contained in the 1990 national Workplace Industrial Relations Survey. The results indicate that between 1984 and 1990, union recognition was lost in less than 10% of establishments in the sample; changes in union status were closely related to changes in union density; and changes in union density, in turn, resulted from extrinsic and organizational changes, such as increased competition and changes in company size.

scholarly journals Employee Ownership and Attitudes Toward the Union: An Empirical Study

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Long
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Employee Ownership ◽  
Non Union ◽  
Trucking Company ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the relationship between employee ownership and attitudes toward the union by reporting the results of an empricial study of a unionized Canadian trucking company recently purchased from it s former corporate owner by most of its workers and managers. Results indicated that most workers— both union and non-union— did not believe that unionization was either incompatible with employee ownership or unnecessary.

From unrequited love to sleeping with the enemy: COVID-19 and the future relationship between UK universities and professional accounting bodies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Al Mahameed ◽  
Umair Riaz ◽  
Lara Gee
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Teaching Styles ◽  
Accreditation System ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Unrequited Love ◽  
Accounting Curriculum ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This paper aims to examine the effects of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on the relationship between UK universities and professional accounting bodies (PABs) in the context of the accreditation system and how well prepared this relationship was to observe and respond to the pandemic. Design/methodology/approach The research draws on 10 semi-structured interviews and correspondence, with six English universities in the context of their relationship with three PABs to build an extended analytical structure to understand the nature and extent of the accreditation system in light of COVID-19. Findings The study shows that COVID-19 has highlighted pedagogical and ideological conflicts within the PAB–university relationship. The analysis shows that, in an attempt to resolve these conflicts, universities demonstrate “unrequited love” for PABs by limiting changes to assessments to meet the PABs’ criteria. Indeed, PABs face very little resistance from universities. This further constrains academics by suppressing innovation and limiting their scope to learn and adopt new skills, habits and teaching styles. Originality/value The paper highlights the weakness of the PAB–university relationship. Moreover, it shows that rather than using the pandemic crisis to question this relationship, PABs may seek to promote their accounting pedagogy and retain greater control of the accounting curriculum. This can entail the transformation of academics into translators of PABs’ accounting pedagogy rather than exercising academic freedom and promoting critical thinking.

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