The Chronicle: Faculty Strikes at Southern Illinois-Carbondale, but Deal Is Struck With 3 Other Unions
The union representing tenured and tenure-track faculty members at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale announced shortly after midnight that it was going out on strike, following months of turbulent negotations with the administration there. According to a statement issued by the union, the SIUC Faculty Association, among the chief remaining sticking points in contract talks are the university’s policies on furloughs, the laying off of tenured faculty members, and allegations of conflict of interest and sexual harassment against faculty members. Early this morning, the university reached agreements with three other collective-bargaining units that had been threatening to strike, those representing non-tenure-track faculty, graduate assistants, and civil-service employees.
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