Many of the 1,150 tenured and nontenured faculty union members at the University of Illinois at Chicago are on strike and picketing today and tomorrow. The protest is meant to draw attention to the lack of negotiations between faculty union and the university. The union representing the faculty was certified in 2012, but is still without a contract because of delays in negotiating and impasses over several issues. The faculty members are demanding some raises, especially to the minimum salaries that teachers can receive and for greater assistance in paying insurance costs. The administration projects that the faculty?s latest proposal would raise the cost per member by somewhere between 23% and 27%. A bargaining session is set for Friday with two more scheduled to take place soon after that.
See "UIC faculty stage 2-day strike: ?This is short-term pain?", Naheed Rajwani, Chicago Tribune, February 17, 2014