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Show 103 Obviously, time. Governor Lee did not approve of teacher power at that Today employees, though they Collective there teachers should remain neutral are or as public at least act neutral. earnestly sought passage of bill which would establish a state collective procedures to be used in bar- gaining sessions between boards and teacher associations. the Legislature has not reacted hopeful of such legislation that presently there when impasses ways of as Bargaining The UEA has bargaining still many who believe that are occur. is no favorably. Yet, teachers and have justified such machinery the set up to facilitate Spokesmen have argued solving impasse problems then on that there striking.74 are So far, are still grounds agreements better Teacher in districts which have experienced strikes agree that there must be better ways and claim that they innately have the right to bargain referring to a prior time when the position of State Superintendent of Public Instruction was an elected position. J. Bracken Lee, radio address, KSL, Salt Lake City, 20 February 1951. This address is reprinted in Elwin Lee Reynolds, "J. Bracken Lee and Utah Public Education," (M.A. thesis, Brigham Young University, 1973). 74"UEA Chief Urging Bargaining Law to End Impasses," Salt Lake Tribune, 3 December 1975, p. B-1. McCarty implies that if there machinery set up to handle disputes, there would be much less chance of striking by teachers. Another spokesman, Eldon M. Tolman of the Granite Education Association, agrees that if there existed a good collective bargaining law, strikes could most likely be avoided. Telephone interview, 14 October 1976. Other sources are now calling for some kind of bargaining law. See the editorial in Deseret News, 7 August 1975, p. A-5. There have been numerous dissertations and theses written dealing with it. were |
