The enactment of a recent law, allowing graduate students to unionize, is a huge victory for NIU Huskie graduate assistants and for undergraduates who are considering pursuing a graduate degree in the state of Illinois.One of the 250 laws enacted in the...

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...

I read the article on the NIU faculty’s intent to unionize in the Northern Star on Monday with great dismay. I have worked for other universities that unionized, the faculty thinking they are now in a position of power, with a union to battle for them....

NIU faculty members finalized intent to unionize on Thursday with the Illinois Federation of Teachers; if certified, contract negotiations will potentially occur.One of the first steps that a newly-certified group often takes is beginning contract negotiations,...