Media Relations  Collective Bargaining Expert Available to
Discuss Unions March 11, 2011 Print this article Print  DURHAM,
N.H. -- Todd DeMitchell, professor and chair of the Department
of Education and the Lamberton Professor in the Justice Studies
Program at the University of New Hampshire, is available to
discuss public unions, collective bargaining, and trends in
organizing public-sector workers.  DeMitchell bargained for
school boards in California where he was both a teacher and a
school administrator. He teaches public-sector collective
bargaining in the school administration program at UNH, and he
is the author of “Labor Relations in Education: Policies,
Politics, and Practices” (2010). He also is union member at UNH,
which has collective bargaining.  Below is a commentary by
DeMitchell about the current issues regarding public unions:
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