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Course Introduction and Lesson 1: What is Compensation?
Readings
  • Getting Started content.
  • Chapter 1 in your textbook.
Activities
  • Complete and submit requested information.
  • Complete the About You survey.
Lesson 2: The History and Background of Unions as well as an Overview of Public Sector Unions Today
Readings
  • Chapters 1 and 2 in your textbook.
  • Lesson 02 content.
Activities
  • Complete and submit the written assignment.
  • Take quiz for Chapters 1 and 2.
Lesson 3: The Legal Environment of Public Sector Labor Relations
Readings
  • Chapter 3 in your textbook.
  • Lesson 03 content.
  • Supreme Court Decision in NLRB vs Yeshiva University, 444  US  672-1980
Activities
  • Complete and submit the written assignment.
  • Take quiz for Chapter 3.
  • Post Current Event topic.
Lesson 4: Fundamentals of the Bargaining Process
Readings
  • Chapter 4 in your textbook.
  • Lesson 04 content.
Activities
  • Complete the group discussion assignment.
  • Take quiz for Chapter 4.
Lesson 5: The Process and Politics of Public Sector Collective Bargaining
Readings
  • Chapter 5 in your textbook.
  • Lesson 05 content.
Activities
  • Complete and submit the written assignment.
  • Take quiz for Chapter 5.
  • Post Current Event topic.
Lesson 6: Financial Impacts of Unions and Collective Bargaining
Readings
  • Chapter 6 in your textbook.
  • Lesson 06 content.
Activities
  • Complete the group discussion assignment.
  • Take quiz for Chapter 6.
Lesson 7: Union Impacts: Personnel Processes and Politics
Readings
  • Chapter 7 in your text
  • Student selected Readings on Tenure
Activities
  • Complete the group discussion assignment.
  • Take quiz for Chapter 7.
Lesson 8: Strikes in the Public Sector
Readings
  • Chapter 8 in your textbook.
  • Lesson 08 content.
Activities
  • Complete and submit the written assignment.
  • Take quiz for Chapter 8.
  • Post Current Event topic. 
  • Complete the Mid-Course Survey
Lesson 9: Resolving Impasses: Alternative to Strikes
Readings
  • Chapter 9 in your textbook.
  • “Ten Reasons Why Binding Arbitration of Public Sector Labor Disputes is Not in the Public Interest”. From the  Publice Service Research Foundation
  • Lesson 09 content.
Activities
  • Complete the group discussion assignment.
  • Take quiz for Chapter 9.
Lesson 10: Living with the Contract
Readings
  • Chapter 10 in your textbook.
  • Lesson 10 content.
Activities
  • Complete and submit the written assignment.
  • Take quiz for Chapter 10.
  • Post Current Event topic.
Lesson 11: The Future of Public Sector Collective Bargaining
Readings
  • Chapter 11 in your textbook.
  • Lesson 11 content.
  • "Scott Walker and the Fate of the Union" by D. Kaufman.
Activities
  • Complete and submit the written assignment.
  • Take quiz for Chapter 11.
  • Post Current Event topic.
Lesson 12: Privatization
Readings
  • pp. 210-211 in your textbook.
  • Lesson 12 content.
  • Privatization and Contracting Out Articles:
    1. Justice for Janitors: The Challenge of Organizing in Contract Services
    2. Cottage Cheese or Chicken?  An AFSCME Fight for Public Food Service
    3. Fighting on Many Fronts: SEIU in Los Angeles
    4. Showdown at Nacogdoches: The CWA in Texas
Activities
  • All available online at Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Labor Research Review Number 15 (1990)
  • Complete the group discussion assignment.
  • Optional Resource: Watch the movie BREAD AND ROSES
Lesson 13: Current Event Essay  
Readings
  • None
Activities
  • Submit your essay topic by Tuesday
  • Complete and submit your essay
Lesson 14: Final Project
Readings
  • None
Activities
  • Complete and submit your final project.
  • Complete the SRTE (course evaluation)

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