Anti-Faculty-Union Proposal in Ohio Came From Public-University Association

by E Wayne Ross on March 9, 2011

The Chronicle: Anti-Faculty-Union Proposal in Ohio Came From Public-University Association

Leaders of faculty unions in Ohio are bristling at the revelation that an association of the state’s public universities was behind a controversial proposal that would strip most public-college faculty members of collective-bargaining rights by reclassifying them as management-level employees.

Bruce E. Johnson, president of the association, the Inter-University Council of Ohio, confirmed in an interview on Tuesday that he had suggested the measure to members of the state Senate. It was approved by the Senate last week, as part of a broader overhaul of Ohio’s collective-bargaining laws now pending in the state House of Representatives.