Teacher Unionism and Collective Bargaining in England and Wales

This article analyzes the teacher union movement and the system of teacher bargaining in England and Wales. Although the teacher union movement is marked by an unusually high degree of organizational fragmentation, salaries in both countries are negotiated in a single forum at the national level called the “Burnham Committee.” This committee is unusual in the British context in that it has a statutory basis and negotiates fixed-term agreements which are legally enforceable. The author traces the postwar history of teacher negotiations and shows that the Burnham system has experienced increasing difficulties in the past decade, such as a rise in teacher militancy and a frequent resort to arbitration and other forms of government intervention in the negotiation process

Arbitration · Collective agreement · Collective bargaining · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Labour economics · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Statutory law · Wage · History · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration · Social Work Education and Practice

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