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e - \ a. . . they ate virtually guwanteed lifelong job security. In addition, their income has been rising. While salaries are not comparable tdthose of executives ih industry or government, they are substantial. . Furthermore, fa.culty members often augment their paychecks by writing for publications, serving as consultants or addressing meet- Since pay.and job security do not appear on the surface to be the burnin3 issues, why the campus agitation? The fact is that times for many faculty, and it hardly applies to the burgeoning numbers of instructors in community colleges. Full professors, well-established and with the shield of tenure. are not pFone to support collective bar- gaining, but their colleagues with lower status often feel a need for the protection which unionization seems to offer. ings.. 0. . have changed. Thesituation described above is less true than formerly Competing for faculty favor are three organizations: the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), the National Education Association (NEA), and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an AFL-CIO union. The A F T made the initial effort to organize teachers in the early 1~160's in the New York City schools. The communist-influenced . AFT has a history of supprting leflist. muses dating back to the early 1YSO's. More recently, the leftist union h a s been actively organizing faculty in community colleges across the nation. T!re MEA. kcst known as a professional associalion of school teachers and administrators, announced this year at its national convention an all-out drive to unionize U. S. college faculty. It should be noted, that the formation of a National Coalition €or Teacher Unity was announced on 11 December 1972 by lea.ders of the AFT union and a 400,000 member branch of the NEA union. Full merger of the NEA and the AFT foundered last June when NEA voted to stay out of any affiliation with an AFLPCIO union. 3 2 . . . - i I I 1 - __ .. . - -. . . . . . .. . -