Back when I was on the management side of a university bargaining table, I *liked* that labour, including faculty, were unionised: a collective bargaining agreement helps an awful lot when problems arise, especially when there is a member of staff causing a lot of strife. It also gave me a way of keeping lines of communication open - what I see as the greatest problem of contemporary university senior management is their detachment from people in different posts who have a good position from which to view what is going on.
Back when I was on the management side of a university bargaining table, I *liked* that labour, including faculty, were unionised: a collective bargaining agreement helps an awful lot when problems arise, especially when there is a member of staff causing a lot of strife. It also gave me a way of keeping lines of communication open - what I see as the greatest problem of contemporary university senior management is their detachment from people in different posts who have a good position from which to view what is going on.
I’ve made a point of having my students take a look at this oldie: https://www.nber.org/papers/w0364