University of Illinois at Chicago strike

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University of Illinois at Chicago Faculty Members Strike

In response to the union's request for expanded student mental health resources, the university's website said it "announced an approved $4.47 million plan to enhance student mental health services and continues to insist that a clause regarding student services does not belong in a faculty employment contract."

The union is requesting, among other things, a $61,000 minimum salary for non-tenure-track faculty and $77,000 for tenure track, and a $3,000 base salary increase for all faculty in the first year of the contract, Williams said. In the last contract with the bargaining unit, the minimum salary for non-tenure-track faculty was $50,000 and the minimum for tenure track was $65,000.

The university is offering a $54,000 minimum salary for non-tenure-track faculty that would grow to about $58,400 by the fourth and final year of the proposed new contract, and a minimum $67,600 for tenure-track faculty that would grow to $70,300 by year four.

So, even in four years, the minimum salary would be below the union's current request.

The university is also offering a one-time, $4,000 lump sum payment during the four-year contract, instead of the $3,000 base salary increase for all faculty. The union is also pushing for a three-year contract, while the university says it wants a four-year one.

[TreadingLife]

Yeah, I don't see the connection between potentially happier and more well adjusted students with stronger coping mechanisms and executive functioning skills and my job either.

[Anselm]

A one bedroom apartment near UIC will be at least $2000 per month so I would not take the job for $54,000.