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Category Archives: Myths About Faculty Unions

Campus Faculty Association pushes for union to protect academic freedom

September 26, 2014by CFA

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 […]

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Academic Freedom, Collective Bargaining, Myths About Faculty Unions, Unionization

Featured publication of the week: Faculty Union Basics

March 26, 2014by richardslaugesen

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 […]

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Collective Bargaining, Myths About Faculty Unions

College of Engineering Executive Committee is Confused: CFA sets the Record Straight

December 20, 2013by Susan Davis

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. […]

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Collective Bargaining, Myths About Faculty Unions, Unionization

AAUP demolishes anti-union opinion piece from Chronicle of Higher Education

November 19, 2013by richardslaugesen

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 […]

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Myths About Faculty Unions, shared governance, Uncategorized, Unionization

Myths About Faculty Unions: #6

March 28, 2013by CFA

“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 […]

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Myths About Faculty Unions

Myths About Faculty Unions: #5

March 20, 2013by CFA

“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 […]

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Myths About Faculty Unions

Myths About Faculty Unions: #4

March 9, 2013by CFA

“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, […]

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Myths About Faculty Unions, Uncategorized

Myths About Faculty Unions: Myth #3

February 26, 2013by CFA

“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 […]

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Collective Bargaining, Myths About Faculty Unions

Myths About Faculty Unions: Myth #2

February 21, 2013by CFA

“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 […]

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Myths About Faculty Unions, Unionization

Myths About Faculty Unions, #1

February 14, 2013by Susan Davis

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 […]

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