Nothing, unless a faculty group decides to try to bargain collectively with their administration or trustees. If so, the bill establishes procedures, protects their rights, and requires the trustees to bargain with them and their representatives.

Faculty members at Eastern Washington University are members of the United Faculty, affiliated with both the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association. They have a contract with the trustees of EWU, their second contract. Many faculty members at Central Washington University are also members of United Faculty, but their trustees had refused to bargain with them. The bill will compel the trustees to bargain. Faculty members throughout the state are members of the American Association of University Professors, but the AAUP does not bargain with any institution at this time, though it could, as it does in other states, if it represented a majority of faculty at an institution.

Some members of the faculty would form an organizing committee and discuss the possibility with their colleagues. The group would get cards or petitions signed authorizing their organization to represent them. If the administration doubts they represent a majority, an election may be held under the auspices of the Public Employment Relations Commission. If a union wins the election with a majority, the union of faculty and the trustees would enter into negotiations for a contract. No outside group can create a union, only faculty members themselves could.

You can read the bill here:

http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2001-02/House/2400-2424/2403-s2_sl_04092002.txt

http://www.leg.wa.gov/wsladm/billinfo/dspBillSummary.cfm?billnumber=2403#files

http://www.unitedfaculty.org/default.htm

http://www.csmt.ewu.edu/csmt/chem/jcorkill/UFE.htm

http://www.aft.org/higher_ed/

http://www.aaup.org/

http://www.olywa.net/perc/