10.2190/CN.31.3.d E4717286QK217357 4 Graduate Student Employees and Their Propensity to Unionize: Part II, The Illinois Experience 241 249 20080218 20080218 20080218 20080218 E4717286QK217357.pdf http://baywood.metapress.com/link.asp?target=contribution&id=E4717286QK217357 3 Barry M. Rubin Richard S. Rubin Indiana University, Bloomington The purpose of this research is to build on the findings in our earlier article in this journal, entitled "Graduate Student Employees and Their Propensity to Unionize: A Heuristic Approach." In that article, we identified those perceptions that determined a graduate student employee's propensity to join a union based on data collected at Indiana University. Those perceptions were measured through the application of a model that separated the psychological determinants to unionize into three categories: work environment, influence, and beliefs about unions. The results of that statistical analysis indicated that negative beliefs about unions are the strongest determinant of graduate student employees' propensity to unionize. The current research expands the analysis to include data collected from the University of Illinois, and validates and extends our initial findings. S. Smallwood, Success and New Hurdles for T.A. Unions, <i>Chronicle of Higher Education</i>, 47:43, p. A10, July 6, 2001. S. Aronowitz, Academic Unionism and the Future of Higher Education, <i>Will Teach for Food: Academic Labor in Crisis</i>, C. Nelson (ed.), Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis, 1997. J. Chanvisanuruk, A. Kearns, K. McCoy, B. Rubin, and R. Rubin, Graduate Student Employees and Their Propensity to Unionize: A Heuristic Approach, <i>Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector</i>, forthcoming. T. Kochan, <i>Collective Bargaining and Industrial Relations</i>, Richard D. Irwin, Homewood, Illinois, 1980. Indiana University (Bloomington) Graduate and Professional Student Organization Mission Statement.