Part-time and other temporary faculty members at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville have voted 78 to 31 for the Illinois Education Association to represent them. The result was announced in late-October after two days of balloting.

The election makes the IEA the bargaining agent for the SIUE Non-Tenure Track Faculty Association. The group consists of about 270 teachers, an estimated 40 percent of SIUE’s faculty. They are mostly part-timers paid by the course, but also include full-timers on short-term contracts. The full-timers get some benefits, the part-timers none. Members of both groups have complained to union organizers about the lack of pay increases, a grievance procedure and job security. None has tenure nor permanent appointment, and they aren’t in line to get it.

Association spokesman Alan Shiller, who teaches speech communication, said, “We gained a good voice,” and considering the size of the vote, he added, “I think this is something the university is going to have to listen to.”

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