Teacher Unions and TQE: Building Quality Labor Relations
- ISBN-10
- 0803960905
- ISBN-13
- 9780803960909
- Category
- Education / Testing & Measurement
- Pages
- 105
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994-04-08
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Authors
- Todd A. DeMitchell, William A. Streshly
Description
This book is designed to provide school administrators and labor leaders with ideas about how to improve school district labor relations by incorporating the principles of Total Quality Management (TQM). In schools that apply the principles of Total Quality Education (TQE)--that is TQM as it modified to school practice--labor and management can agree to disagree while still maintaining a positive atmosphere of trust and mutual respect. Chapter 1 presents a brief history of U.S. teachers and their early associations. Chapter 2 focuses on the problems caused by industrial-style teacher unions and develops a rationale for abandoning adversarial union-management relations. The third chapter examines W. Edwards Deming's "14 points for management," which form the basis for the transformation of an organization into one that embraces the principles of TQM. Each of the points is related to the educational setting and school district labor relations. The collective bargaining aspects of labor relations are examined in chapter 4, which discusses the various conflicts and concordances, harmonies and dissonances, to determine whether collaborative bargaining is a vehicle or barrier to reform. Chapters 5-7 deal with the transformation from industrial unions to professional unions and changes that must be made as educators embrace the concepts of TQM. Chapter 5 focuses on the drift toward professional unionism, and chapter 6 delivers some practical advice for launching a new quality labor relationship in a school district. Chapter 7 is focused on the policy trust agreement. Key terms and references accompany each chapter. A total of 5 exhibits, 9 tables, and 1 figure are included. (LMI)
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