State Board Certifies U. of Ill. Faculty Union of Coordinated Bargaining Units

The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board has certified a union made up of coordinated bargaining units for tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty members at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The UIC United Faculty Union’s certification follows a ruling by a state appeals court in March, which held that faculty members there could not form a joint union consisting of both tenured and tenure-track professors and adjunct professors. After that ruling was issued, the leaders of the group, a campus affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors, abandoned their effort to establish a single collective-bargaining unit and filed new membership cards with the state board.