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The History Books Tell It: Collective Bargaining in Higher Education in the 1940s
The Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy
(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
Keywords
- Collective bargaining,
- labor history,
- higher education,
- United Public Workers of America,
- State County Municipal Workers of America,
- United Federal Workers of America
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2017
Citation Information
William A. Herbert. "The History Books Tell It: Collective Bargaining in Higher Education in the 1940s" The Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy Vol. 9 (2017) ISSN: ISSN 1941-8043 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/william_herbert/34/
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