The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Faculty Compensation in Community Colleges

Baker, H. Kent

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“…1 after unionization and during the first few years of unionization dwindled significantly over time (Birnbaum, 1976;Morgan & Kearney, 1977;Leslie & Hu, 1977;Wiley, 1993). Specifically, two of the studies clearly reported that unionism had a favorable impact during the first five years of collective bargaining (Marshall, 1979;Baker, 1984). Afterwards, the trend was reversed in favor of nonunion colleges (Marshall, 1979).…”

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The Effect Of Unionization On Community College Faculty Remuneration: An Overview

Wiley

1993

Community College Review

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During the 1970s, two-year colleges represented a segment of higher education in which unionism made considerable and consistent headway. In fact, collective bargaining in higher education was primarily considered a community college phenomenon (Bureau of National Affairs, 1976;Lawler, 1978 and. Several major studies that included community or two-year colleges began in the 1970s and mainly focused on that decade. These studies sought to determine the extent to which faculty pay levels and increases were due to collective bargaining. Initial ResearhBirnbaum's (1974) study of collective bargaining is the earliest study on faculty compensation in American higher education. He matched 88 union and nonunion, two-year and fouryear institutions in an effort to ascertain whether unionism had a significant impact on compensation increases. To control for institutional differences, schools were matched by curricular breadth (university, four-year college with and without master's programs, and two-year college), control (public, independent, or church-related), faculty compensation level, geographic proximity, and size (number of faculty) in a base year.After developing the matched pairs, Birnbaum compared salary increases over a five-year period (1968-69 to 1972-73) and found a $777 salary advantage for unionized faculty. However, the salary advantage enjoyed by public two-year colleges was not statistically significant. In an extended analysis, Birnbaum (1976) compared salary increases for 70 of the original 88 pairs of schools between 1972-73 and 1974-75. While higher salary increases continued at public unionized four-year colleges and Unionization and Faculty Remuneration Wiley 48 at Monash University on April 12, 2015 crw.sagepub.com Downloaded from

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“…In another study, Baker (1984) developed 31 matched pairs of union and nonunion community colleges based on four criteria: AAUP category, compensation level, size (number of full-time faculty), and geographic location. Compensation changes were compared over a five-year period relative to a base year .…”

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