The Ithacan

Never knowing if we will be brought back from one year to another makes it hard to plan our lives and fully support our students and our families.

The Ithaca College contingent faculty unions have announced they will hold an on-campus vote Feb.13–14 to authorize a strike.

About 35 part- and full-time contingent faculty members and students at Ithaca College attended a teach-in presented by members of the contingent faculty union on Sept. 6 to hear updates on their experiences at the college and the unionization process.

Full­-time contingent faculty members at Ithaca College have voted to form a union with Service Employees International Union Local 200United, according to a press release issued May 24. They elected to unionize in a 23–13 vote out of 47 eligible voters, said Zeke Perkins, organizer for SEIU Local 200United.

Members of the Ithaca College administration have denied a request by full-time contingent faculty to join the existing part-time faculty union.

Faculty Council has decided to create a task force to gather more information after a group of part-time faculty spoke to the council about issues with negotiating their union contract with the Ithaca College administration.

Ithaca College part-time faculty successfully elected to unionize May 28 with an overwhelming majority.

A petition is being circulated among Ithaca College full-time faculty asking the administration to edit the union election informational website it created to be more in line with the statement that the college is “neither anti-union nor pro-union,” which the college claims on the same website. As of 8 p.m. Thursday the petition was signed by 105 people.

Ithaca College part-time faculty filed their petition with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize April 15.

Ithaca College part-time faculty members are taking steps towards unionization.

Columnist Andrew Kristy provides his opinion concerning the first NCAA player union.