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In Support of University of Illinois at Chicago United Faculty Local 6456

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Overpass Light Brigade shows support for striking UIC faculty members. (Photo/Emily Brosious)

February 18, 2014, Chicago, IL - Faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, members of United Faculty Local 6456, AFT-IFT, AAUP, voted to go on a two-day strike as part of their efforts to ensure their students get what all students deserve: reasonable class sizes, individualized instruction, support for cutting-edge research, and classrooms and labs that are safe and well-equipped. These are the rights of every student.
From the outset, the UIC United Faculty has bargained and the administration has stalled. While the administration rakes in millions in profits, and has hundreds of millions of dollars in reserves, it refuses to pay faculty what they deserve. The UIC administration can’t claim they have offered a fair contract when newly hired faculty make more than faculty who have dedicated many years to the institution; when some nontenure-track faculty earn just $30,000 a year — less than a living wage in Chicago; or when faculty who have been teaching more than 10 years have to wait until August each year to see if they still have a job for the upcoming school year.
The Chicago Jewish Labor Committee has issued the statement below.
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The Jewish Labor Committee extends solidarity to the United Faculty Local 6456 of the University of Illinois at Chicago in its struggle to secure a fair salary for its members. [Information on how It is shocking that a great university would pay such low salaries while following the corporate model of contracting out services rather than providing the security of a tenured position for its professors. This destructive trend must be stopped and now is the time to do it. We stand with the members of Local 6456.

Michael Perry, Chair
Eli Fishman, Regional Director
Chicago Jewish Labor Committee
205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 2100
Chicago, IL 60601
Email: ChicagoJLC@Jewishlabor.org