ISSUING A DECISION in favor of the Eastern Michigan University Lecturers Organizing Congress (EMULOC), the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC) has granted the right of union representation to full-time lecturers at Eastern Michigan University. "Our decision herein," the Commission concludes, "will give lecturers who have been employed for many years, some close to 20 years, and who have a continuing interest in their employment relationship, the benefits of collective bargaining." Commission members Harry W. Bishop and C. Barry Ott signed the decision.

The result of this decision is that an election will be conducted among the full-time lecturers at the University. A vote in favor will require the EMU administration to recognize the union and begin negotiations for a binding contract.

"We're ecstatic," said Julie Frentrup, a lecturer in Chemistry who has taught at EMU for fifteen years. "The decision says what every lecturer knows: that we are not casual employees, that we teach here year after year, that we have a commitment to the university, and that we deserve the right to representation." Frentrup is a member of the union's Organizing Committee who testified in the MERC hearing.

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