NIU faculty will be entering a new phase, if the union application filed with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board is approved. Hopefully, this move will lead to more constructive communication between the faculty and administration and yield...

A tenure-track faculty union at NIU is a long time coming and I say that having been here only four years.As a graduate student in the Graduate Employees’ Organization at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, I earned yearly cost-of-living raises...