Trade Union In Universities & Colleges And Public Policy Making

Along with the intensified reform of teacher employment system, the labor relation has also changed relatively in public colleges and universities. And the changes will inevitably lead some structural and functional vicissitude of the trade union, which is a product of social and economic contradictions. The labor relation between schools and teachers was planned and administrative in the long-term planned economy, while the labor union played the management and education functions as a subsidiary body of the school administration. However, the market-oriented of labor relations and the contracts require the trade union to adjust its organizational function to prevent marginalization as colleges and universities have been established as an independent legal status and the employment contracts have been put into practice.The history of trade union's development in public colleges and universities in our country can also attest that it is set up to maintain the interests of teachers. The objective foundation for the existence of the trade union is to represent and protect the legal rights and interests of the faculty since the day it was resumed in 1979.All the trade unions in colleges and universities participate in the political process as independent faculty groups to safeguard legal rights and interests of teachers, and improve their professionalism throughout all the developed countries in higher education, no matter Japanese which is under the influence of the civil law or the United Kingdom and the United States which are typical representative of common law.In fact reform is a process to re-adjust the interests of the various groups. Their activities require a platform for fair competition, so that it will achieve healthy competition and the formation of political interest groups. The administrative staff in colleges and universities have absolute ascendance, because in power distribution system they are supported by the state power. And they are not only the operators of power, but also the main policy-making staff, so their interests are integrated with decision-making. But teachers are in the position being administrated, so they are the on the weak side of power relations. Only through their own organization—labor union, can they take part in the process of policy-making as a group, and can achieve full and partial objectives for the teachers in the political process. In addition, the trade union as an interest group in colleges and universities has received national recognition, so as an interest group for its survival, it must play its role to protect the legal right of individual teacher.As an interest group, the trade union depend on the national socialization and the government's policy support to achieve its full autonomy, which requires the government to provide vast space for political participation for interest groups, with a systematized and standardized, fair and transparent system facilities, building institutionalized political participation and interest expressing ways, and the positive interaction between different interest groups such as the government, schools, teachers and so on.Therefore, this article is mainly about system analysis, and employed empirical analysis. On the one hand, it has inspected the policy formulation process of teacher employment system reform in H University; on the other hand, it has done a historical and international comparison from the perspective of the trade union in colleges and universities should be. It is to approve that the trade union is a comprehensive interest group which can represent and protect teachers'interests after the reform of teacher employment system.