10.2190/CN.32.4.a R216M2L6263165N1 1 The Determinants of Union Attitudes among Community College Professors 261 277 20100302 20100302 20100302 20100302 R216M2L6263165N1.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=R216M2L6263165N1 4 Gregory T. Goldey Eric Swank Constance Hardesty Randall Swain Morehead State University, Kentucky Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond As the growth of faculty unions peaked in the mid and late 1970s, so did the number of studies on professorial union attitudes. With only a handful of studies of faculty union attitudes in the last 20 years, this topic has been seriously overlooked. To counter this problem, this article explores the union attitudes of professors in Kentucky's community college system. After addressing some of the current trends in academic work conditions, this article applies four theoretical models to a sample of 329 community college professors. In using the assertions of C. 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