NEIU faculty’s union, UPI local 1600, demands include:

Credit for all the work they do, from teaching in the classroom, to researching and publishing work in their fields, to providing services

A manageable course load and compensation for overload

A pay schedule that reflects market averages and seniority

Academic freedom, to promote integrated learning at a university level

Affordable health care benefits

More than a 2% increase in pay

The administration has:

Decreased the number of full time tenure faculty and increased the number of lower paid non-tenure instructors

Threatened to deport international faculty and students

Terminated health insurance for all striking faculty and staff

Told work-study students that they could no longer be paid because they cannot guarantee that they are in class at least half time.

In the same time period (2001-2004) that the administration gave faculty flat raises of $250 and $1,000, President Steinberg’s salary increased from $178,000 to over $200,000.

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Governor Blagojevich campaigned as the education governor, yet this year alone he cut $202 million from higher education budgets.

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Support the UPI Strike

Call President Salme Steinberg at 773-442-5400

Call Governor Blagojevich at 312-814-2121

For more information go to www.upi4100.org/neiu or call 312-458-9272

To get involved contact studentsforfacultyrights (at) yahoogroups.com