Nontenure-Track Faculty Coalition Local 6546 (AFT\/IFT\/AAUP)<\/a> walked out of their classrooms and labs in a move to help spur stalled contract negotiations. The local has been bargaining for a new contract for the past 18 months.<\/p>\n\u201cUUP is in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Illinois,\u201d said UUP President Fred Kowal. \u201cThey deserve a fair contract and we stand strong and united with them in their quest.\u201d<\/p>\n
UUP agrees with AFT President Randi Weingarten, who said that UIUC\u2019s situation mirrors what\u2019s happening on campuses nationwide.<\/p>\n
\u201cAcross the country, universities are increasingly relying on contingent faculty, but these dedicated educators aren\u2019t being treated fairly,\u201d said Weingarten. \u201cThat\u2019s why educators are coming together to demand fairness.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt UIUC, non-tenured faculty teach nearly 40 percent of all undergraduate courses, yet they have no guarantee of stable employment year-to-year, no vote on department governance and no evaluations to help them measure or improve their teaching. They want UIUC to remain a place where students receive a high-quality public higher education, but that will only happen with a fair contract.\u201d<\/p>\n
The union is asking for improved employment security, opportunities for promotion and professional support, and academic freedom protections for non-tenure-track faculty members. Most of the union\u2019s members have temporary, nine-month contracts and many have been \u2018temporary\u2019 faculty for over 20 years.<\/p>\n
The Nontenure-Track Faculty Coalition represents approximately 500 full-time teaching, research, and clinical faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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