March 11, 2011
Wisconsin Professors Plan to Forge Ahead With Union Elections and Tough Negotiations
By Peter Schmidt
[Updated 5:20 p.m.]
The Wisconsin chapter of the American Federation of Teachers will proceed with planned union elections on four University of Wisconsin campuses, despite the state's adoption of a law this week denying collective-bargaining rights to the university system's faculty and academic staff members and curtailing the bargaining rights and benefits of many other public employees.
The measure, signed into law on Friday morning by Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, does not preclude University of Wisconsin faculty and staff members from continuing to seek representation through campus unions, said Bryan L. Kennedy, president of both the AFT-Wisconsin and the Association of University of Wisconsin Professionals, a nonbargaining statewide. More here:
http://chronicle.com/article/Wisconsin-Professors-Plan-to/126717/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
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