This chapter summarizes recent state supreme court and federal court decisions involving collective bargaining for employees of public educational institutions. The cases discussed are generally limited to those decided during 1975 and reported in the General Digest as of March 1976. In his discussion, the author attempts to integrate related cases and to illuminate any unifying legal principles that underlie the decisions relevant to each specific subtopic involving collective bargaining. Separate sections of the article focus in turn on cases involving the obligation and authority to bargain, determination of bargaining units, scope of bargaining, the duty to bargain in good faith, union security provisions, third-party procedures for resolving bargaining impasses, strikes and related employee actions, and enforcement of collective bargaining agreements. (JG)