Sandburg Faculty Ass'n v. Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board

Petitioner Sandburg Faculty Association, IEA-NEA (IEA), pursuant to Supreme Court Rule 335 (134 Ill. 2d R. 335), appeals an order of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (Board) which denied its petition for an election to enlarge an existing collective bargaining unit of approximately 50 faculty members and counselors at Carl Sandburg College (College) by adding approximately 45 nonfaculty employees to the unit.

The IEA raises these issues for review: (1) whether the proposed unit is appropriate, under the traditional community of interest standard, as set out in section 7 of the…