| CMU faculty file for union election |
| Thursday, 25 February 2010 20:17 |
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From AFT FACE: AFT Michigan continues its efforts to work with contingent faculty seeking to organize unions for better representation and more equitable working conditions. This time it is a majority of the nontenure-track faculty at Central Michigan University who, yesterday, filed for a union representation election with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC). The Union of Teaching Faculty (UTF) will negotiate job security, salary increases, health insurance, and professional development issues with the university administration. "We are one of the few groups on campus without collective bargaining rights," said Mary Ann Freling, an English instructor at the university. "As a union, we'll have the right to meet on a more equal footing with the administration and discuss the issues that affect us, our students, and the university as a whole." |
