ILLINOIS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION organizer David Vitoff and instructor Alan Shiller are pushing for SIUE faculty members to form a union for teaching employees.

Professors want to put unions on the table at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. David Vitoff, an organizer with the Illinois Education Association, is helping SIUE professors with a card drive for unionization, and the results are coming in.

SIUE has about 360 full-time tenure-track faculty. There are another 250 nontenure-track professors, a category that includes part-time lecturers teaching three or fewer classes a semester and full-time instructors who work on a yearly contract.

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