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Educational Labor Relations Board Hearings Between ISU Non-Tenure
Track Faculty Association And Illinois State University
The
hearing before the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board
between the ISU Non-Tenure Track Faculty Association, IEA-NEA and
Illinois State University to determine the composition of the
bargaining unit was completed in Springfield on Thursday, February
13.
Testimony was provided by non-tenure track faculty to demonstrate
that their duties, responsibilities, and conditions of employment
were the same regardless of whether or not they are employed
full-time or part-time, are retired NTT faculty, or hold other
employment at ISU as administrative professionals, civil service
employees, or lab school teachers.
Sharon MacDonald, spokesperson for the ISU NTT Faculty Association,
said "We are pleased that the testimony given at the hearings, both
by non-tenure track faculty and by ISU's representative,
Vice-President Sharon Stanford, affirmed what we have been
maintaining: that, with few exceptions, NTT faculty at ISU share in
a community of interest. We do the same work under the same
conditions."
NTT faculty who do not share in the same community of interest at
this time are Milner Library faculty, Mennonite College of Nursing
faculty, retired tenure track faculty, and Jay Groves, a supervisor
who is employed as ISU's director of media relations.
MacDonald said, "The hearings underscored how much non-tenure track
faculty have in common. It is important that we 'hang together' to
gain our rights, recognition, and respect, 'or assuredly we shall
all hang separately' and gain nothing."
Administrative Law Judge Allen J. Oehlert will rule on the hearing
before March 10, 2003.
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