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United Faculty @northerniowa opposes proposed IA Board of Regents policy that will censor faculty & undermine critical inquiry, free speech, and student choice. Policy is scheduled for approval at the BOR’s June 11 meeting in Iowa City. ufaculty.uni.edu @VanessaMiller12

UNI's Faculty Labor Union is seeking a wage increase due to inflation. kwwl.com/news/education…

University of Northern Iowa’s Faculty Seek 9.89% Increase in Salaries over 2 Years. Faculty salaries have fallen dramatically behind the cost of living and peer institutions. ufaculty.uni.edu/bargaining-inf…

5 UNI faculty approved TODAY by the Iowa Board of Regents for their tenure and promotion, effective July 1, 2024. We worked together, had the evidence, and corrected a grave injustice. thegazette.com/higher-educati… @VanessaMiller12 @KWWL @wcfcourier @DMRegister @UILaborCenter @AAUP

United Faculty Wins Recertification by Huge Margin; More than 98% of voting faculty vote “yes” for UNI faculty union recertification. ufaculty.uni.edu/press-release-…

Amen. A statewide initiative to highlight the deterioration of standards for public sector employees across the state and calls on legislators to restore rights that have been stripped by legislation harmful to Iowa workers.

Iowa Senate Study Bill 3185, introduced 2/6, would penalize & decertify public unions in IA for employers failing to submit a list of employees to the state Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). MORE: ufaculty.uni.edu/press-release-… @AAUP @AFTunion @238Teamsters @IowaAFLCIO

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa) –Iowa Senate Study Bill 3185, introduced this week, would penalize and decertify public unions in Iowa for their employer’s mistake in failing to submit a list of employees to the state Public Employment Relations Board (PERB). MORE AT: ufaculty.uni.edu/press-release-…

iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/01/10/gov… Guessing why Mike Richards abruptly resigned as president from the Board of Regents...

United Faculty calls out use of funds Over $1 million of general support fund shifted to UNI Athletics in the last two years northerniowan.com/21244/showcase…

Public unions in Iowa finally see a good model from Wisconsin to follow. Good luck to our friends in WI! apnews.com/article/wiscon…

Congrats to Steve O'Kane, the accomplished UNI Biology prof, on his retirement party hosted by his department today. Fall 2021: Steve insisted on his class wearing masks during the pandemic, to keep everyone safe. "Doing the right thing, the moral thing, has to start somewhere."

Florida is treating its faculty unions terribly, but @UnitedFacultyFL, we had to deal with the same partisan obstructionism in Iowa since 2017. You can do it! apnews.com/article/desant…

Cracking down on public employee unions has only further harmed the working class in Iowa's economy. Every community, large and small, in the state is destabilized when the state undercuts its own public employees and their families. iowastartingline.com/2023/01/13/bre…

United Faculty, which represents 500 faculty members at the Univ. of Northern Iowa, calls for increases in UNI faculty salaries, as those salaries have not kept pace with inflation and as UNI faculty compensation has lost ground with peer institutions. ufaculty.uni.edu/2023-2025-cont…

United Faculty makes its initial offer for the 2023-2025 contract. wcfcourier.com/news/local/edu… @unitedfacuni @wcfcourier

We are closing in on 90%+ faculty voter participation at UNI. Great job, UNI faculty! If you didn't vote yet, recertification voting closes at noon on Tuesday (10/25). Recertification is a lot of government-imposed red tape (since 2017), but we win by winning big every time!

Dr O'Kane's students & NI student gov't demand accountability from Iowa BOR. Statements: ufaculty.uni.edu/united-faculty… ufaculty.uni.edu/united-faculty… @VanessaMiller12 @AWindCourier @rjfoley @hellokatepayne @LauraRBelin @ColleenFlahert1 @_CleoKrejci @katebellows @KWWL @TheDailyIowan @NISG