The Effect of Right to Work Laws on Union Membership and School Resources: Evidence from 1942-2017

Autor/in	Lyon, Melissa Arnold
Titel	The Effect of Right to Work Laws on Union Membership and School Resources: Evidence from 1942-2017
Quelle	In: Educational Researcher, 52 (2023) 6, S.339-347 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lyon, Melissa Arnold)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-189X
DOI	10.3102/0013189X231167144
Schlagwörter	Labor Legislation; Unions; Educational Policy; Educational History; Policy Analysis; Teachers; Collective Bargaining; Expenditures + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Labor law; Arbeitsrecht; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Politikfeldanalyse; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Tarifverhandlung; Ausgaben
Abstract	In the "Janus v. AFCSME" (2018) decision, the U.S. Supreme Court mandated that all public sector workers, including teachers, operate in a Right to Work (RTW) framework. In the years since, teachers' unions have not experienced the mass exodus that some predicted, but should we expect them to? Using an original, historical data set spanning 1942-2017, I examine the effect of prior RTW policies on teachers' union membership and school expenditures. I find that RTW policies decrease teachers' union membership by roughly 43% and reduce educational expenditures by nearly $800 per pupil. Importantly, effects take roughly 10 years to clearly materialize. Additional analyses provide support for the notion that effects on school resources are driven, in part, by effects on union membership. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01