Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2017
Abstract
This article presents a history of collective bargaining in higher education during and just after World War II, decades before the establishment of applicable statutory frameworks for labor representation. It examines the collective bargaining program adopted by the University of Illinois in 1945, along with contracts negotiated at other institutions. The article also examines the role of United Public Workers of America (UPWA) and its predecessor unions in organizing and negotiating on behalf of faculty, teachers, and instructors. The first known collective agreements applicable to faculty, teachers and instructors, were negotiated by those unions before UPWA was destroyed during the domestic Cold War
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Comments
This article was originally published in the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy.
The research for this article was funded, in part, by a grant from the Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York Research Award Program.