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Tactic of Withholding Unpaid Teaching Time

The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of the tactic of withholding unpaid teaching time in public school contract negotiations. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context of educational-labor history in which such tactics have been employed, and to discuss their current application in negotiation processes, including both successes and failures and their potential use in the future, with reference to personal interviews conducted with teachers and with labor leaders, all with a view toward demonstrating that while withholding unpaid teaching time might produce contractual goals desired by teachers' unions, positive results might be outweighed by negative factors.

According to a study by the National Education Association, the mean or average number of noncompensated hours spent per week on school-related activities from 1966 to 1991 decreased from 10.8 to 8.2. However, since 1971, "the mean has increased, reaching 10.8 in 1980 and falling slightly to 10.3 in 1991" (NEA 44-5). From 1966 to 1991, the percentage of teachers who spent between four and sixteen hours of uncompensated school-related time tended to decrease slightly; for example, 26.5 percent of teachers reported spending 10-12 weekly hours of uncompensated time in 1966, while only 21.3 percent reported doing so in 1991. On the other hand, the percentage of teachers spending up to four hours of uncompensated school-related weekly time rose from 7.6 percent in 1966 to 15.6 percent in 1991, while the percentage of teachers spending 16 or more such hours rose from 15.4 percent in 1966 to 18.3 percent in 1991, declining slightly from 1971 to 1976 (NEA 45). Meanwhile, there is evidence of regional variation in the length of the compensated teacher time, with some reported work weeks of 35 or fewer hours in the Northeast and 40 hours or more in the West and South (NEA 44-6).

The issue of time management for teachers has come to the fore in recen...

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