{"id":6101,"date":"2009-04-16T11:54:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6101"},"modified":"2009-04-16T11:57:24","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T19:57:24","slug":"montana-state-u-profs-vote-to-unionize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/montana-state-u-profs-vote-to-unionize\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana State U profs vote to unionize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FACE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftface.org\/index.php?option=content&#038;task=view&#038;id=508\">Clean Sweep in Montana<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The votes have been counted and the Montana State University-Bozeman faculty, tenure-track and adjunct, have made it clear that they want a union.  With this vote, MEA-MFT, the state affiliate of the AFT and the National Education Association, now represents all faculty in the public colleges and universities of Montana.  That&#8217;s what we call &#8220;union density&#8221;! <\/p>\n<p>Bozeman Daily Chronicle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bozemandailychronicle.com\/articles\/2009\/04\/15\/news\/10faculty.txt\">MSU faculty votes to join union<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The faculty at Montana State University voted Tuesday for the first time in history to join a union.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was close among tenured and tenure-track faculty n 168 to 156 in favor of unionization, or 52 to 48 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FACE: Clean Sweep in Montana The votes have been counted and the Montana State University-Bozeman faculty, tenure-track and adjunct, have made it clear that they want a union. With this vote, MEA-MFT, the state affiliate of the AFT and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/montana-state-u-profs-vote-to-unionize\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2275],"tags":[3329,1288953,1288963],"class_list":["post-6101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unions","tag-montana-state-u","tag-organizing","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6105,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6101\/revisions\/6105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}