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The union representing tenure-track and tenured faculty members at the University of Illinois at Springfield announced late Monday that it would start a strike today. A statement from the union said that it had hoped negotiations would avert the strike, which comes a week before the end of the semester. The university sent a note to students last week in which it said it would seek to minimize disruptions of normal activities. The note asked students to wait 15 minutes before leaving any class for which no instructor showed up.
The State Register-Journal reported that a key issue in the dispute is the union request -- opposed by the administration -- to have a grievance procedure outlined in the contract for cases when faculty members believe there have been violations of policy in tenure reviews.
