UIC United Faculty

August 10, 2018

UIC Union Coalition Action: Labor Relations Responds

Campus Unions Unite for Answers On July 24th, UIC United Faculty, along with two dozen representatives from our fellow unions, GEO, SEIU and INA, visited the administration’s Labor Relations office . By that time, we had already spent several months trying to negotiate with LR on common-sense …

August 4, 2018

Bargaining Update #7: The Football Gag

Kick the Football, Charlie Brown! Three weeks ago, the UIC United Faculty team proposed changes to discipline and dismissal in our contract. We aimed to describe a process for discipline that is Fair to the faculty under scrutiny; Transparent , so that all parties know what to expect; and …

July 26, 2018

Union to UIC Administration: Stop Playing Games with Members’ Money

UIC Unions Stand Together Yesterday, the UIC United Faculty joined with the Graduate Employees Organization , Illinois Nurses Association , and SEIU Local 73 to tell the UIC administration that we will not accept any further bureaucratic dithering or intransigence where union membership is …

July 20, 2018

Bargaining Update #6: Administration Finally Responds...Sort Of

A Minimal Response In our last session, the United Faculty team invited and encouraged the Administration’s negotiators to return with counter proposals, which they have so far withheld. We feel that it is difficult to negotiate if the other side only ever demands more of our positions, without …

July 13, 2018

Bargaining Update #5: 3rd Session Progress

Our Last “Easy” TA In our 3rd meeting with the University’s bargaining team, we opened with another quick Tentative Agreement on Article XVII - Access to Personnel Files. This is the last of our language streamlining changes that simply bring the NTT and TT contracts into closer alignment without …

July 6, 2018

Happy 4th (and 5th) of July From a UNITED FACULTY

Another Reason to Celebrate Happy 4th (and 5th) of July from UIC’s United Faculty! Many of you will have been out celebrating Independence Day with your friends and family yesterday, enjoying a well deserved holiday. We also want to remind you that today, the 5th of July, marks the 83rd anniversary …

June 29, 2018

Bargaining Update #4: Early Tentative Agreements

TA's and Our Second Day at the Bargaining Table We had another interesting day at the bargaining table Wednesday. We TA’ed some easy articles, discussed some of our previous proposals, and introduced two new article proposals. For those who are unfamiliar with the negotiating process, or just need …

June 19, 2018

Bargaining Update #2: Meet The Team

Meet Your Bargaining Team Last week, we announced that negotiations on our 3rd contract will officially begin on Wednesday, 6/20/18. We will be holding a brief meet-and-greet on location, to support our bargaining team and show our union pride. Join us: Wednesday, 6/20/18, 1:45-2pm @Student Center …

June 13, 2018

Bargaining Update #1: First Session Scheduled, Follow for Updates

One month ago, on May 9th, UIC United Faculty presented UIC Administration with our demand to bargain over what will become our third contract since the union was founded in 2012. Last week, the university responded with proposed meeting times, and we have mutually agreed to several dates for our …

April 28, 2017

Illinois TEACHOUT Resolution

Support the April 27 th TEACH OUT for Illinois Higher Education Adopted by UIC Senate 4/26/17 WHEREAS: The State of Illinois has failed to pass a full higher education budget since fiscal year 2015; and WHEREAS: Higher education funding and MAP grants have endured both repeated governor …

April 6, 2017

Shared Governance and Academic Freedom Award Winner Announced

UIC United Faculty Awards First Annual John Shuler Award for Shared Governance and Academic Freedom to the English Department Resolution Adopted by the UICUF Representative Assembly March 21, 2017 WHEREAS, the Department of English revised its bylaws in May 2015 to include “all tenured and …

February 8, 2017

Healthcare Message to Members

Dear UIC United Faculty Member, As you may recall about a year ago we sent a request to President Killeen regarding our concerns about future increases to the cost of our health care. As a result of our advocacy and working in coalition with the UIC Senate, Academic Professional Advisory Council, …

October 6, 2016

UICUF's Letter to Chancellor Amiridis Regarding ICR Pullback

Click the link below to Read UICUF's letter to Chancellor Amiridis regarding the University's troubling decision to pull back 125 million in indirect cost return (ICR) funds to cover the State's potential budgetary shortfall. ICR Letter October 4, 2016

May 9, 2016

UIUC Non-Tenure Track Ratify Their First Contract!

Great news! Our sister union at University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition, Local 6546, (AFT/IFT/AAUP) has ratified its first contract by an overwhelming majority. UIC United Faculty congratulates NTFC, as well as Interim Chancellor Barbara Wilson and Interim Provost …

April 5, 2016

UICUF Spring Meeting

We had a great meeting on March 9th with updates on Organizing, Contract Implementation, Healthcare, Union Committees, and Legislation. If you were not able to attend, a PDF of the powerpoint is linked below. UICUF Spring Meeting

April 5, 2016

UIC Healthcare Concerns

As reported at our membership meeting last month, we drafted and sent in January a joint letter from the UIC Academic Professional Advisory Committee, UIC Faculty Senate, UIC Staff Advisory Council, and UIC United Faculty to President Killeen regarding our serious concerns about anticipated changes …

October 28, 2015

Ratification Meetings

UICUF asks every member to come and review and ratify the new 3-year contract at the lobbies of University Hall (UH), Science & Engineering Offices (SEO), or School of Public Health (SPH) today (Tuesday 10-27) 12-4p or tomorrow (Wednesday 10-28) 9a-1p. If you’re working mainly on the West …

September 22, 2015

Wisconsin Panel

UIC United Faculty is sponsoring a presentation titled, "Defending the University of Wisconsin: What Happened and What is to Come?" The event features David Vanness, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, UW-Madison, and Rachel Buff, Associate Professor of History, UW-Milwaukee. The …

September 6, 2015

Happy Labor Day Weekend!

Happy Labor Day Weekend.

August 25, 2015

Welcome Back to School!

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