SIUE Faculty Group Ratifies Union

Part-time and other temporary faculty members at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville have voted 78 to 31 for the Illinois Education Association to represent them. The result was announced in late-October after two days of balloting. The election makes the IEA the bargaining agent for the SIUE Non-Tenure Track Faculty Association. The group consists of about 270 teachers, an estimated 40 percent of SIUE’s faculty. They are mostly part-timers paid by the course, but also include full-timers on short-term contracts. The full-timers get some benefits, the part-timers none. Members of both groups have complained to union organizers about the lack of […]