we’re uniting for a
stronger isu!
BIG NEWS!
Today we’ve officially filed to form our union with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (IELRB)!
Read our press release here.
Over the past few years, tenure-line faculty members from across campus have shared their ideas about how we can use our collective power to improve faculty working conditions and make ISU a great place to work and to learn.
Now, an unstoppable majority of faculty have chosen to stand together to form our faculty union, the United Faculty of Illinois State University (UFISU)! As a chapter of the University Professionals of Illinois (UPI, Local 4100), we join with the collective power of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the American Federation of Teachers, and the American Association of University Professors to fight for and defend public higher education and the broader labor movement here at ISU, across the state, and throughout the country.
Are you ready to learn more and become a member of UFISU? Submit this form and we’ll be in touch to help you get started!
We are the United Faculty of Illinois State University, and we say UNION YES!
We are UFISU
As faculty members at Illinois State University, we believe that a public education serving a broad and diverse society is a profound public good and the foundation of democracy. Faculty members can only do our part in creating and maintaining this public good if we have safe, fair, equitable, and dignified working conditions. We believe that these conditions can only be achieved through the collective power of a member-driven, faculty union.
In forming a union, we, the tenured and tenure-track faculty at ISU aim to:
- Ensure all faculty have the resources and support they need to be successful in teaching, research, and creative activities, including safe, clean, and up-to-date working and learning spaces;
- Advance genuine inclusion, access, and equity for all faculty;
- Ensure all faculty receive fair wages and consistent raises that adequately value and compensate workload in teaching, scholarly and creative productivity, and service, while addressing cost of living, compression, inversion, and equity considerations;
- Work with Academic Senate to improve shared governance, administrative transparency, and due process at ISU;
- Advocate for mental health, wellness, and student support services that will enable all students to learn and thrive in our classrooms;
- Work collaboratively with other groups to uphold the common mission of making ISU a great place to work and learn.
GET INVOLVED
Already, a strong majority of tenured and tenure-track faculty from every department and school at ISU have come together to establish our union, the United Faculty of Illinois State University.
Our next steps are to prepare for bargaining. Our goal is to bargain a first contract that ensures all faculty have the resources and support needed to be successful in teaching, research, creative activities, and service – all to build a stronger ISU together.
Our voices will carry the most weight at the bargaining table when all United Faculty members are strongly engaged. Are you ready to become a member and get involved with our union? Submit this form and we’ll be in touch to help you get started!
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