UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONALS OF ILLINOIS v. EDGAR

No. 96-3601.

114 F.3d 665 (1997)

UNIVERSITY PROFESSIONALS OF ILLINOIS, LOCAL 4100, IFT-AFT, AFL-CIO, and its Sangamon State University Chapter, Mitch Vogel, President of the University Professionals of Illinois, Local 4100, Ron Ettinger, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. James R. EDGAR, Governor of the State of Illinois; Thomas Lemont, both as an individual and in his official capacity as President of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees; Stanley O. Inkenberry, both as an individual and in his official capacity as President of the University of Illinois, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided June 11, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara J. Hillman (argued), Robert A. Seltzer, Cornfield & Feldman, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Daniel N. Malato, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for James R. Edgar.

Thomas J. Piskorski (argued), R. Theodore Clark, Jr., Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Daniel N. Malato, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, Byron H. Higgins, Urbana, IL, for Thomas LeMont, Stanley O. Inkenberry and Naomi B. Lynn.

Daniel N. Malato, Office of the Attorney General, Civil Appeals Division, Chicago, IL, for Gerald E. Berendt.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and FLAUM and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


FLAUM, Circuit Judge.

By act of the Illinois State Legislature, Sangamon State University became the third campus of the University of Illinois, the University of Illinois at Springfield. Concomitant with this transformation was the consolidation of faculty labor representation into one bargaining unit comprised of faculty members for the three-campus system. Previously, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board had determined labor representation for employees...

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