LOTHAR SPANG Collective Bargaining and University

Librarians were an integral and sometimes unwelcome part of the Wayne State University faculty unionization movement. When the university began to abrogate their faculty status because of financial difficulties in 1968, librarians sought union counsel and were later joined in union activities by the teaching faculty. During organiza-tion, librarians faced problems of fair representation, but the AAUP, the elected bargaining agent, ultimately negotiated a contract in 1972 which restored some of their faculty rights. Collective bargain-ing made WSU librarians question their traditional self-image. A paradox of the movement, however, is that librarians, active in union-izing and negotiating, are most conservative in using participatory management privileges granted them by the contract. LIBRARIANS HAVE BEEN AN INTEGRAL but sometimes unwelcome part of the move-ment for faculty unionization a