10.2190/9UUF-7X62-8U6K-N8LG 9UUF7X628U6KN8LG 0 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LAWS AND TEACHER STRIKES 20020509 20020509 20020509 20020509 http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=9UUF7X628U6KN8LG 3 DAVID L. COLTON A study conducted by the Public Service Research Council concluded that adoption of public employee bargaining statutes causes an increase in public employee strikes. Several methodological flaws in the study are reported; in addition the "nonpartisan" posture of the Public Service Research Council is questioned. A partial replication of the Council's study was conducted using teacher strike data. The study was designed to overcome methodological flaws found in the initial study. The replication suggests some nonstatutory factors that may strongly affect the incidence of teacher strikes, and fails to find any meaningful correlation between adoption of a bargaining statute and the incidence of teacher strikes.