Faculty at The Ohio State University at Marion are attempting to form the first faculty employee union at Ohio State.
A majority of tenured and tenure-track faculty at Ohio State Marion submitted union authorization cards with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Ohio Council 8 to the Ohio State Employment Relations Board (SERB) in March, and the process is still pending before the board amid campus faculty claiming the organization has not yet acknowledged the efforts to organize.
By organizing with AFSCME, Ohio State Marion faculty hope to gain equal pay and workload expectations with their faculty colleagues, to secure rules and governance on the Marion campus and to ensure that professors can negotiate health care benefits and prevent further loss of pensions.
According to a release from AFSCME, the university administration is delaying and evading the attempts to unionize, arguing the professors at Marion are part of the larger university and therefore cannot organize separately.
Marion campus faculty meanwhile claim the organizational structures are separate between campuses and "separate and increased work and service standards" they experience at the regional campus.
Associate Professor and union organizer Scot Kaplan said the Ohio State administration has made no attempt to acknowledge or reach out to the faculty of the Marion campus since filing the petition to be collectively recognized and has instead hired a law firm and...
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