- Courtesy of Illinois Federation of Teachers
Members of the faculty union at the University of Illinois at Chicago are about to make good on their long-developing threat of a walkout.
UICUF president and economics professor Joe Persky says the walkout is meant to “show them we’re serious,” while the two-day period was chosen in an attempt to minimize the impact on students. Since most classes meet either Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, or Tuesday and Thursday, “the idea was that each course will lose only one class,” he says.
The next negotiating session is scheduled for Friday.
