To Be included in Union, FT Non-Tenured Faculty Petition State Employment Relations Board
by Luke Macy On Dec. 12 and 13, Miami University administrators and faculty met for a hearing with the State Employment Relations Board in Columbus to determine who could be included in a faculty union. Miami argued the union should only be able to include tenure-track faculty. Faculty Alliance of Miami (FAM) members disagreed. “We’re trying to argue that we all have this community of interest, and the university wants to exclude everybody except the tenure line faculty,” said Cathy Wagner, a proponent for FAM. “But the question is really particular. It’s whether or not we have enough in common to justify being a union […]