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[Tex]

OT university governance

That is not accurate. There are faculty at research univeristies who are union. There are professional unions.

Edit: The faculty at the California State University system, all 4-year institutions, are unionized.

The California public universities are to my knowledge led by the schools' boards of trustees, not by a broadly based program of faculty governance that would make the faculty in effect managers. Provided the faculty are mere employees, they would be eligible to form unions and bargain collectively if they wanted. The problem arises when management tries to do the same. It seems -- and here my practice outside the field leaves me without specifics -- that at some point one's authority to make decisions causes one to become considered "management" and to be unable to unionize.

I suspect the trend over the long term will be toward more ability to bargain collectively, as the distinction between labor and management begins to fail. However, the schools that have zero faculty unionization might be that way simply because of their principles of governance, that would make them more like the K-12 environment (top-down) and less like the self-governing faculty bodies that exist in some universities.

Not that self-governing faculties are a good thing -- they have, for example, a natural motivation to look after student interest that is basically nil.

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--Tex.