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Show 11 Since the place. early 19601s, writers acquainted with the law have increasingly concerned about the become status of in public employees general and puzzled concerning the status of teachers in particular. Questions have been raised regarding the immediacy of damage tential damage done stri kes have been strikes,17 uated" studies cause are their not society if teachers strike. to suggested such particularly releva.nt not realizing that the teacher power cannot be certain that such take root. Boulwarisrn.18 to this proposals of a "grad- These law-oriented study, primarily be yet been implemented. movement is po Alternatives to "non- stoppage I' stri kes and as and also modified suggestions have or However, constantly "moving,1I legal nature will one not Therefore, their study has been useful--especial1y since this study is concerned with trends. An item which is tion of the largely unstudied There language. are concerning language manipulation. essay, "politics and the peop 1 e choose words and good is the rhetorical manipula- statements which have been made One such work is George Orwell IS English Language," which deals with how phrases whi ch make unpopul ar noti ons more 17The non-stoppage strike and the graduated strike alterna tives are explored by Merton C. Bernstein in "Alternatives to the Strike in Public Labor Relations," Harvard Law Review 85 (December 1971 ): 35-37. l8Boulwarism is a tactic named after Lemmue1 Boulware, who was employed by General Electric in the 19401s. Boulwarism required that all proposals be based on research. Supposedly thi s was to do away wi th i:gamesmanship.1I Boulwarism was declared illegal by the National Labor Relations Board. Nonetheless, Robert Y. Dubel believes that admin istration ought to help shape collective bargaining into a positive force rather than resist the process and he sees a possibility of modifying Boulwarism. See Why Didn1t Someone Tell Me? (Atlantic City: ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 061 612, 1972). This was a speech presented at the American Association of School Administra tors Annual Convention. |
