Dive Brief:
- Efforts to form a faculty union at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have stepped up and people are picking sides.
- Groups of faculty members for and against the union have released arguments and lists of prominent faculty supporters on each side.
- School officials have said publicly that a union would only make interactions between faculty and administrators more contentious.
Dive Insight:
One faculty member opposed to a union says none of UIUC's peer institutions has a faculty union, to which a union supporter essentially replies: Just because others haven't unionized doesn't mean we shouldn't. For more on unionization efforts in higher ed, check out our look at 6 other campuses where faculty and staff have made efforts to organize.
