From the Chronicle of Higher Education Blog "The Ticker" 11-07-11
Faculty Unions at Southern Illinois-Carbondale Are Ready to Walk Out
October 6, 2011, 4:13 pm
All three unions representing instructors at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale are now authorized by their members to strike. On Wednesday, 83 percent of the members of the non-tenure-track faculty association who voted on the question authorized a strike by their leadership. The result brings that union into line with those representing graduate assistants, tenured and tenure-track faculty members, and civil-service employees, whose members voted last week to authorize strikes.
Thanks Joey! I had no idea this was happening 'til I saw your post. Jennifer
ReplyDeleteHere's a follow up from the same blog.
ReplyDeleteOctober 9, 2011
Faculty Unions in Ohio and Wisconsin Hunker Down
Political climate forces leaders to accept concessions and defeat
The Jambar
Youngstown State U. students support their faculty in front of the president's office. A bill to curtail collective bargaining for all state employees awaits a referendum in November.
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Youngstown State U. students support their faculty in front of the president's office. A bill to curtail collective bargaining for all state employees awaits a referendum in November.
By Peter Schmidt
The attacks on Ohio's and Wisconsin's public-sector unions mounted by fiscally conservative lawmakers this year are forcing unions that represent public-college faculty in those states to rethink their strategies and basic missions.
On the defensive both at the bargaining table and in the political arena, many faculty unions in the two states have been concluding that their attempts to hold their ground on one front can bring disastrous, unintended consequences on the other. The tough