Put together 375 faculty who haven't had a pay raise in two years, a faculty senate that feels it is not heard, an administration that isn't interested and what have you got? The perfect habitat for cultivating a union.

Or so the full-time faculty at Florida Community College in Jacksonville came to believe. On April 4, they voted 201-132 to be represented by the Florida Community College Faculty Federation. The FCCFF is affiliated with the United Faculty of Florida, a statewide higher education unit, and the merged AFT/NEA state federation, the Florida Education Association. [Barbara McKenna / AFT On Campus]