GRADUATE EMP. ORG. IFT/AFT, AFL-CIO v. EDUC. LABOR REL. BD.

No. 1-98-1685.

733 N.E.2d 759 (2000)

315 Ill. App.3d 278

248 Ill.Dec. 84

GRADUATE EMPLOYEES ORGANIZATION, IFT/AFT, AFL-CIO, Petitioner-Appellant, v. ILLINOIS EDUCATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Gerald E. Berendt, Mary Ann Louderback, Michael J. Gavin; Board of Trustees/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Governor Jim Edgar, Judith Ann Calder, William D. Engelbrecht, Jeffrey Gindorf, Susan L. Gravenhorst, Thomas R. Lamont, Ada N. Lopez, Martha R. O'Malley, Roger L. Plummer and Judith R. Reese, Respondents-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fifth Division.

June 30, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert A. Cornfield, of Cornfield and Feldman, Chicago, for Appellant Graduate Employees Organization.

James E. Ryan, Attorney General; Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General; John P. Schmidt, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, for Appellee Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board.

Steven A. Veazie, Margaret M. Rawles, Office of University Counsel, Urbana; R. Theodore Clark, Jr., Thomas J. Piskorski of Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, Chicago, for Appellee Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

Kim L. Kirn, University Legal Counsel, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, for Amicus Curiae of Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University, in support of Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board.

Kenneth L. Davidson, University Counsel, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, for Amicus Curiae of Board of Trustees of Northern Illinois University, in support of Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board.


Presiding Justice THEIS delivered the opinion of the court:

Petitioner Graduate Employees Organization, IFT/AFT, AFL-CIO, petitions for direct review from an opinion and order of respondent Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (IELRB), which dismissed petitioner's petition requesting certification and recognition as the collective bargaining representative for all teaching assistants, graduate assistants and research assistants at the University of Illinois...

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