Governor’s State is the third state university to go on strike this month, following Chicago State and Eastern Illinois.
Chicago State University faculty and staff members strike on the CSU campus on April 3, 2023.
Among the issues on the table are raises for faculty members and demanding workloads affecting the level of service academic support professionals can provide to students.“We have some heavy workloads and because some advisers have 500 or more students, it’s hard to dedicate time to each student individually,” Carla Johnson, a graduate academic adviser and vice president of academic support professionals in the union, said in an interview Friday.
“We’re not close,” Johnson said. “We are dealing with inflation right now — gas prices are up, prices of eggs are up, and we pay the same prices that administrators who get better salaries than us pay.” “We managed to narrow our differences down to less than $900,000 per year over the length of the contract,” said Billy Hung, EIU UPI’s lead negotiator and an associate professor of microbiology. “In dollar amount, we are not that far apart. We came a lot closer than we have before in just one day and we were caught off guard when they wanted to stop.”
“I already talked to my students outside of class time about what would happen if we go on strike and what will happen when I come back,” he said, adding that the union wanted to avoid a strike from the get-go. While union faculty members are on strike, classes, labs and university support are mostly functioning as expected, CSU officials said, advising students to attend all classes and labs unless told they are canceled.
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