UIUC has a rich history of faculty union organizing which began long before the advent of CFA.  Timothy Reese Cain of the College of Education has begun the process of chronicling that history with a short piece for the blog of the Illinois Program for Research Into the Humanties (IPRH).  We applaud Professor Cain for his work and urge you to read it at:

http://iprh.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/local-41/