OU FACULTY VOTED UNION YES FOR UAOU

WE WON!

Please RSVP: April 21, 4:30-7:30. Celebration at Eclipse Company Store – Our Victory, Our Future!

We are organizing a union to:

  1. Secure a just, safe, equitable, and collegial environment for teaching, learning, research, creative activity, and service.

  2. Negotiate the working conditions and compensation structure that will enable the recruitment and retention of a dedicated and diverse faculty.

  3. Ensure the sustained and substantial commitment of university resources to OU’s core mission of teaching and research.

  4. Realize, in partnership with Faculty Senate, the true potential of shared governance, administrative transparency, and due process.

  5. Defend academic freedom, the key to an open and unfettered society.

The University’s Delay Tactics Won’t Stop Us!

On April 3, the university management’s external lawyer submitted their objections to the faculty’s election victory. But here’s the truth: we won – and we won by a landslide, with 70% in support. The university can try to delay, but they can’t change the mathematical and democratic facts.

This is part of a clear strategy to slow us down and keep us from securing the contract we deserve. But we’re not backing down. Our legal team submitted its response to the State Employment Relations Board (SERB) on Monday, April 14.

The Athens County Independent reports here.

Why Unionize

Individually, we faculty have little control over our working lives, but together, we have the power to create a better Ohio University. As a union, you and your colleagues would have the legal right to negotiate with the university on the terms and conditions of your employment, including

  • Practicing real shared governance that actively includes faculty in university decision-making

  • Creating transparent workload expectations and preventing exploitation by enforcing existing workload policy

  • Ensuring adequate and fair compensation for all faculty

  • Clarifying expectations around promotion and tenure

  • Increasing job security for Instructional Faculty

The benefits are clear, both for yourself and for your colleagues and community!


“Unions support faculty so faculty can support students.”

— Angela Sprunger, Art & Design