Collective bargaining in the public sector, which includes public schools and public institutions of higher education, is a modern fact of life

Van Meter, Eddy J.

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Kansas State University

Educational Considerations Volume 6 Number 2 Article 2 1-1-1979 Viewpoint: A balance of views on collective bargaining Eddy J. Van Meter Kansas State University Follow this and additional works at: https://newprairiepress.org/edconsiderations  Part of the Higher Education Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Van Meter, Eddy J. (1979) "Viewpoint: A balance of views on collective bargaining," Educational Considerations: Vol. 6: No. 2. https://doi.org/10.4148/0146-9282.1956 This Introductory Materials is brought to you for free and open access by New Prairie Press. It has been accepted for inclusion in Educational Considerations by an authorized administrator of New Prairie Press. For more information, please contact cads@k-state.edu. -Viewpoint A balance ot views on collective bargaining Collective bargaining in the public sector, which includes public schools and public In· stitutions of higher education, is a modern fact of life. Statutes authorizing bargaining rights for public employees now exist in three-fourths of the states in this country, and there is every in· dication more states will pass some form of permissive legis lation during the next several years. The question is thus not one of whether or not bargaining should be extended to the public sec· tor, but rather how is public sector bargaining to be carried out and what is the current and poten· tial impact of such bargain ing? The articles included In this issue all focus on collective bargaining in education, with at· tention given to schools at the elementary and secondary level, community colleges, private higher education Institut ions and publi c colleges and universities. The issue is thus directed to a status report on bargaining. Some comment is perhaps in order with regard to the rationale for singling out the topic of bargaining as a GOncentrated theme. The answer is simple. Collective bargaining in education Is an important subject to educators. Ail educators! Educational bargain ing Is becoming more and more a reality in the Midwest reg ion of the country, and that being so, those individuals involved need to know as much as possible about the subject. A word of caution about the issue. In selecting articles for inclusion no attempt was made to speci fy the extent to which each author did or did not take a neutral stance with reference to the topic. Clearly some of the authors were not neutral concerning their commentary. So much the better reading! A balance of vrewpoint for the issue as a whole was, however, sought. The suc· cess of this attempt is left to your judgment. Eddy J. Van Meter Associate Professor of Education College of Education Kansas State Un lverslt y 1Van Meter: Viewpoint: A balance of views on collective bargainingPublished by New Prairie Press, 2017

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