Campus Faculty Association pushes for union to protect academic freedom
Published in the Daily Illini on 9/25/14 Posted: Thursday, September 25, 2014 12:45 am | Updated: 1:42 am, Thu Sep 25, 2014. By Eric Fries | Contributing writer | The […]
Category Archives: Myths About Faculty Unions
Featured publication of the week: Faculty Union Basics
How would a faculty union form at the University of Illinois? Our publication Faculty Union Basics explains the key points. Tenured/tenure-track faculty and non-tenure track faculty must form separate bargaining units […]
College of Engineering Executive Committee is Confused: CFA sets the Record Straight
Earlier this week, the Executive Committee of the College of Engineering sent a memo to all engineering faculty, retailing some of the administration’s misleading and confusing pronouncements on faculty unionization. […]
AAUP demolishes anti-union opinion piece from Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently published an anti-union opinion piece by Professor Nicholas Burbules (U of Illinois), titled “How Unions Weaken Shared Governance.” Ernst Benjamin, former General Secretary and […]
Myths About Faculty Unions: #6
“We don’t need a union: we have shared governance.” “Shared governance” means that faculty, students, and administration shape decisions affecting the educational and research missions of the university. Shared governance […]
Myths About Faculty Unions: #5
“Dues will be excessive, and unpredictable from year to year.” Not true. We will be setting our own dues by majority vote. Union dues don’t change until members vote to […]
Myths About Faculty Unions: #4
“Union advocates aren’t interested in excellence. They would destroy our merit based system and make everyone equal.” The CFA is interested in excellence. That’s why we talk about class size, […]
Myths About Faculty Unions: Myth #3
“If we have a faculty union, our ‘stars’ will leave!” It is unlikely that our star professors will leave if we form a union. Faculty leave UIUC for a range […]
Myths About Faculty Unions: Myth #2
“If we have a faculty union, we’ll lose status…. ” This myth is based on the belief that only service and industrial workers have unions, and so unionization must not […]
Myths About Faculty Unions, #1
In this series, the Campus Faculty Association takes apart some of the most common myths about unions and collective bargaining at universities. Many of these old chestnuts have been around […]
