NEARLY 16 YEARS after the last union vote, some of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s professors will choose whether to go union this fall.

SIUE’s nontenure-track lecturers and instructors will vote Sept. 27-28 whether to allow the Illinois Education Association to represent them in collective bargaining. The IEA already represents the professional and technical staff at the university.

A card drive held last spring garnered enough interest to hold an election under the rules of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board. Exact numbers were not available.

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