Attitudes of Pentecostal teachers in Newfoundland toward appropriate strategies for resolving impasses in collective bargaining

• Main Author: Rideout, Frederick David.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1986
• Subjects: Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/7966/; https://research.library.mun.ca/7966/1/Rideout_FrederickDavid.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/7966/3/Rideout_FrederickDavid.pdf

This study was concerned mainly with Pentecostal teachers in Newfoundland and their refusal to participate in the duly authorized job actions of partial and complete withdrawal of services, as appropriate means for resolving impasses in the collective bargaining process. The Pentecostal teachers have claimed that their refusal to engage in such activity is an extension of their religious philosophy, which places education in a parochial context. Consequently, considerable tension has been created in the provincial bargaining unit if they are unwilling to join their colleagues in these more militant impasse strategies. -- This study was developed to document the differences between Pentecostal teachers and the rest of the teaching force in the province on strategies for resolving impasses. The impasse procedures examined were mediation and conciliation, fact finding, binding arbitration, final offer arbitration, issue-by-issue arbitration, withholding of partial services, withholding of all services, political activity, and use of the media. An attempt was also made to identify any influencing factors which might contribute to these differences. The independent variables included for this purpose were school system (Pentecostal or non-Pentecostal), teaching certificate level, sex, grade level taught (elementary or secondary), position, years of teaching experience, size of home town, school size, degree of job satisfaction, religious commitment to the teachings and practices of one's church, importance assigned to one's church, extent of union involvement, and degree of support for denominational schooling. In addition, the study also sought direction from the teachers as to the most acceptable means for accommodating the Pentecostals in the collective bargaining process. -- The questionnaire designed for this study was distributed to the total population of 397 Pentecostal teachers, and the same number of non-Pentecostal teachers in the province. One way analysis of variance was used to test for significant ...