Our sister campaign at the University of Illinois-Chicago is reporting success! With over 60% of the faculty signing authorization cards, the faculty have voted “Union Yes!”
Representatives from the University of Illinois-Chicago United Faculty campaign delivered hundreds of signed authorization cards to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board on April 29, marking the first time in Illinois history that a large public research university’s faculty have organized a union.
The UIC United Faculty campaign is a partnership of the AFT, the Illinois Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors. The union must still wait for official approval from the state.
“My academic research and management consulting over the last 40 years have focused on improving organizational performance, often through employee empowerment,” says Darold Barnum, professor of managerial studies. “I support the UIC United Faculty union because faculty collective bargaining offers the best, and indeed only, way that UIC can accomplish its mission at a reasonable cost to the state and its students.”
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