In search of self-governance, unionization?
Inside Higher EdPosted: October 15th, 2008 by R. Lee Wrights
“Ohio University’s Faculty Senate voted 23-18 with three abstentions Monday to endorse a movement toward unionization — calling on professors to ‘begin the process of organizing themselves into a collective bargaining unit for the purpose of negotiating a contractual agreement with the university, instituting meaningful shared governance, to which the university administration would be bound by law.’ Professors supporting unionization stress the three words ‘meaningful shared governance’ as being something a collective bargaining unit can achieve that, amid administrators’ disregard, the Faculty Senate has not” (10/15/08)
