SISU Adjuncts Set to Vote For
NEARLY 16 YEARS after the last union vote, some of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s professors will choose whether to go union this fall. SIUE’s nontenure-track lecturers and instructors will vote Sept. 27-28 whether to allow the Illinois Education Association to represent them in collective bargaining. The IEA already represents the professional and technical staff at the university. A card drive held last spring garnered enough interest to hold an election under the rules of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board. Exact numbers were not available. “We’re excited and very optimistic that once the election is held, everything will fall into […]