This study examines the basis of hostility toward collective bargaining by professionals
as attitudes develop during professional training. Comparisons are made among law
students in different class years within a school. Data on the relationship between
background, motivation to enter law, careerplans, stage of legal training, and attitudes
toward bargaining show that hostility toward professional collective bargaining
increases with training. Background factors, motivation, and career plans are initially
important predictors of hostility, but become insignificant by the third year of law
school. The ability to distinguish the activity of unions from that of professional
associations becomes more important as background effects attenuate.
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