The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois v. The Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board

Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board certified union as exclusive bargaining representative of tenured, non-tenured, and tenure-track faculty at UIC. Section 7(a) of Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act forbids inclusion of nontenured faculty in a unit containing tenured and tenure-track faculty. Legislative history of Act shows that sole appropriate bargaining unit for tenured and tenure-track faculty at each University of Illinois campus would exclude nontenure-track faculty. (POPE and KNECHT, concurring.)