At Chicago’s largest public university, the University of Illinois at Chicago, a faculty strike may be coming. The same school was rocked by a graduate student workers’ strike recently. UIC United Faculty (Local 6456 of the Illinois Federation of Teachers) is the union representing all full-time professors, instructors, and lecturers at the campus. Its members have authorized a strike vote, potentially starting next Tuesday, April 23. Roosevelt Institute at UIC, a progressive student group, put out this video explaining the problems with higher education funding, instructor pay, and more.
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