By Peter Schmidt

A group of professors at Montana State University at Bozeman are seeking to scrap the collective-bargaining unit that represents their institution’s tenured and tenure-track faculty members, arguing that the costs associated with unionization outweigh any benefits they have derived from it.

The professors have mounted an effort to have tenured and tenure-track faculty members vote next year on decertifying their roughly 400-member bargaining unit, which is connected with both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association through their combined state-level affiliate, the MEA-MFT…read more