Contents by
Section: June 1998
Front
Page
Lead Story
They're
talking on campus...
On the Road
ActionLine NEA
In the Know
From Capital to Campus
NEA
Affilitates in Action
Higher Education News
Money Savvy
The Dialogue
Thriving in Academe
Battle for a Contract in Southern Illinois
After 40 negotiating sessions and more than 250 hours at the bargaining table, NEA's newest research university affiliate, the Southern Illinois University-Carbondale Faculty Association, remains undaunted in its quest for a fair collective bargaining agreement.
Bolstered by significant membership growth, as well as some early victories on scope of bargaining questions, the Association has already engineered important changes in the balance of power on campus, according to faculty leaders.
These successes include winning the right of the Faculty Association to take part in the selection process for a new chancellor and ensuring that the university will conduct searches to fill several tenure-track faculty lines previously frozen by the administration.
In both cases, the university negotiated settlements in response legal challenges filed by the Association. In a third case, the university agreed to negotiate with the Association over the university calendar after the union filed a demand to bargain.
"These settlements show that the Association has the muscle to enforce programmatic decisions made by the faculty senate and graduate council," notes retiring Faculty Association President James E. Sullivan.
Now comes the final push for a contract.
