Section 1135.20  Presumptively Appropriate Bargaining Units

a)         With respect to educational employees employed at the Urbana-Champaign campus or employed in units located outside Urbana-Champaign which report administratively to the Urbana-Champaign campus, the following units shall be presumptively appropriate for collective bargaining:

1)         Unit 1:  All full-time (i.e., employees who have .51 or greater appointment as a faculty member) tenured or tenure-track faculty; all full-time, nontenure-track faculty who possess a terminal degree appropriate to the academic unit in which the faculty member is employed; and all full-time, nontenure-track faculty without the appropriate terminal degree who have been employed for four consecutive semesters, excluding summer terms, but excluding all faculty members of the College of Law and the College of Veterinary Medicine. A terminal degree is the highest degree attainable in a discipline.

2)         Unit 2:  All full-time (i.e., employees who have .51 or greater appointment as a faculty member) tenure or tenure track faculty members of the College of Law.

3)         Unit 3:  All full-time (i.e., employees who have .51 or greater appointment as a faculty member) tenure or tenure track faculty members of the College of Veterinary Medicine.

4)         Unit 4: All full-time non-visiting academic professionals exempted as Principal Administrative Employees from Section 36e of the State Universities Civil Service Act [110 ILCS 70/36e] who have a .50 or greater appointment in that position.

5)         Unit 5:  All full-time and regular part-time professional employees, as that term is defined in Section 2(k) of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act [115 ILCS 5/2(k)] who are not exempt from the State Universities Civil Service Act.

6)         Unit 6:  All full-time and regular part-time technical and paraprofessional employees not exempt from the State Universities Civil Service Act [110 ILCS 70/36e].  A technical and paraprofessional employee is a person who performs work that is typically laboratory or field work.

7)         Unit 7:  All full-time and regular part-time non-professional administrative and clerical employees not exempt from the State Universities Civil Service Act.

8)         Unit 8:  All full-time and regular part-time service and maintenance employees not exempt from the State Universities Civil Service Act.

b)         With respect to educational employees employed at the Chicago campus or employed in units located outside Chicago which report administratively to the Chicago campus, the following units shall be presumptively appropriate for collective bargaining:

1)         Unit 1:  All full-time (i.e., employees who have .51 or greater appointment as a faculty member) tenured or tenure-track faculty; all full-time, nontenure-track faculty who possess a terminal degree appropriate to the academic unit in which the faculty member is employed; and all full-time, nontenure-track faculty without the appropriate terminal degree who have been employed for four consecutive semesters, excluding summer terms, but excluding all faculty members of the College of Pharmacy, the College of Medicine and the College of Dentistry.

2)         Unit 2:  All full-time (i.e., employees who have .51 or greater appointment as a faculty member) tenure or tenure-track faculty members of the College of Dentistry.

3)         Unit 3:  All full-time (i.e., employees who have .51 or greater appointment as a faculty member) tenure or tenure-track faculty members of the College of Medicine.

4)         Unit 4:  All full-time (i.e., employees who have .51 or greater appointment as a faculty member) tenure or tenure track faculty members of the College of Pharmacy.

5)         Unit 5:  All full-time non-visiting academic professionals exempted as Principal Administrative Employees from Section 36e of the State Universities Civil Service Act  who have a .50 or greater appointment in that position.

6)         Unit 6:  All full-time and regular part-time professional employees, as that term is defined in Section 2(k) of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act [115 ILCS 5/2(k)] who are not exempt from the State Universities Civil Service Act.

7)         Unit 7:  All full-time and regular part-time technical and paraprofessional employees not exempt from the State Universities Civil Service Act.

8)         Unit 8:  All full-time and regular part-time non-professional administrative and clerical employees not exempt from the State Universities Civil Service Act.

9)         Unit 9:  All full-time and regular part-time service and maintenance employees not exempt from the State Universities Civil Service Act.

(Source:  Amended at 28 Ill. Reg. 7993, effective May 28, 2004)