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Paul Bruno
@paul-bruno.com

The messaging around this has been pretty muddled and less than reassuring.

Illinois Public Media@ilpublicmedia.bsky.social

“I think we need unions so that we can be in solidarity with the other folks on our campus. So that we have a seat at the table when our university is making really important decisions about how to respond to all of the things that we’ve been talking about here today.”

ipmnewsroom.orgUniversity of Illinois tenured faculty restart unionization process in midst of Trump policy changes - IPM NewsroomThe Campus Faculty Association hosted a panel Tuesday focused on attacks on higher education, where organizers and heads of other unions pitched unionization as the way to fight back.

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Paul Bruno
@paul-bruno.com

e.g., 90% of what I've been pitched is about salary, and it's not clear where (or who else on campus) that money is supposed to come from.

Paul Bruno
@paul-bruno.com

There's also a literature on public sector unions I'd like to see more engagement with. I know it's thin on higher ed faculty unions specifically, as opposed to, say, K-12 teachers or police, but still. We're academics! And it's not...uh...uniformly encouraging.