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IEA NEA FA SIUE IEA/NEA Faculty Association-Southern Illinois University Edwardsville |
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Questions Raised by Economic Uncertainty
With a union in place, faculty can question why layoffs are allegedly needed and/or bargain over the impact of such action. Administrative decisions can be questioned and “inefficiencies” can be publicly identified all the way up the line. Despite economic uncertainties, represented groups can bargain absolute protections. The recently ratified collective bargaining agreement for SIU Carbondale's IEA Faculty Association, for example, ensures accountability and transparency of employer declared 'financial exigency.'
Gains from new SIUC FA Contract
Your SIUC counterparts have ratified a new collective bargaining agreement, hard-wrought in view of the five-day strike it took to get SIU to bargain seriously. You will see here details of the agreement, and note that the gains have little if anything to do with faculty salaries (as SIUC claimed ad infinitum), and almost everything to do with accountability (in times where ‘financial emergency’ can sometimes be used too loosely) as well as educational quality concerns around workload, class size, and more. The SIUC FA’s own website (http://siucfa.wordpress.com/) contains more details, including the entire agreement.
Will you enjoy due process? SIUC Law School Faculty are not in the SIUC Faculty Association bargaining unit and therefore do not enjoy binding arbitration as the last avenue of appeal in a grievance. Like the tenured law school professor in the case discussed here, SIUE faculty are not represented for the purposes of collective bargaining, and so a grievant can only appeal as far as the SIU Board of Trustees -- not a neutral third party.
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THE IEA/NEA FACULTY ASSOCIATION-SIU EDWARDSVILLE – chartered by the Illinois Education Association/ NEA in 2001 – seeks to represent some 400 SIUE tenured and tenure-track faculty on campus.
We believe SIUE is a great place to work and seek to maintain what we enjoy in a binding collective bargaining agreement enforceable by state law.
Where there are areas in need of improvement, there too can we negotiate through collective bargaining, provisions to
enhance our decision-making on campus and redress problems of inequity, arbitrary or unilateral action, and work toward parity with peer institutions . . .
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To get involved, contact:
Jeff Skoblow
(English)
618/650-3188
To become a member, contact:
Leah O'Brien
(Chemistry)
618/650-3262
Media Contact:
Riley Maynard
(Mass Communications)
618/650-2245
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