UIS faculty members authorize strike amidst contract negations with university
- lindathelibrarian
- Mar 20
- 1 min read
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA)
In an email to the campus community, Chancellor Janet Gooch explained that the university has been negotiating with University of Illinois-Springfield Instructors United (UISIU) for the last year on a new contract. The two parties have met at least 20 times and reached 11 tentative agreements on approximately 20 contract articles being negotiated.
But UISIU said in a statement of their own that the university is still refusing to make “reasonable movement on job security and workload issues that are critical to our members.” On Feb. 26, the union’s members voted to authorize a strike and on March 7, the union filed its 10-day strike notice.
