Unions Accuse Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale of Unfair Labor Practices

June 7, 2011, 2:38 pm

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has been accused of unfair labor practices by each of its four unions affiliated with the National Education Association. In separate complaints filed Monday with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board, the unions representing the university’s tenure-track faculty, non-tenure-track faculty, civil-service employees, and graduate assistants charge the university with bargaining in bad faith because it abruptly ended mediation with the graduate assistants’ union and imposed the terms of its final contract offers on the three others. Rod Sievers, a university spokesman, on Tuesday called the complaints “just part of the process” and said, “We believe we were bargaining in good faith.” Labor negotiations continue there.

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Wonder why in the world they went with the NEA instead of a real union, like the AFT, or a sort of real professional organization for higher education, the AAUP?

This is facially fraudulent on the part of the SIU administration. I don’t reaolly believe in collective bargaining for public employees but if you’re going to allow it, then bargain. Imposition is not bargaining.