At 05:06 PM 3/23/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Most if not all states allow collective bargaining by faculty.
>Generally, there is no right to strike at all, or at least over
>economic issues.
>
>        Tom
>
For public universities, at least, this is not true in many of the states
that do not have a union tradition (such as those 21 states--was 19 for a
long time) that are right-to-work states under the delegated authority in
Taft-Hartley).  In many of the southern and southwestern states (such as
Texas), state law does not permit unionization of any kind by state and
local public employees (some, however, including Texas, make exceptions for
fire fighters and police officers.

John