Professionals favor negotiating goals that promote concerns they have about their work and status.
For example, they want a work environment that permits them to do their best, input into management decisions and some control over work assignments. Their main complaints are favoritism and arbitrary decisions made by management in areas of evaluations and promotions. The benefits of representation if their personal interaction with a supervisor fails Training opportunities, which received especially strong approval. To organize a professional workforce, unions ran miniconferences that focused on professional issues at which pro-union academics made presentations. These conferences gave participating professionals a forum to discuss mutual job-related concerns.