UIC Faculty Staging Two-Day Strike
Salary has been the biggest issue in contract talks that have stalled after 18 months of negotiations.
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Salary has been the biggest issue in contract talks that have stalled after 18 months of negotiations.
Members of the University of Illinois at Chicago's faculty union voted to approve a strike Thursday, although union negotiators will continue to attend previously scheduled mediation sessions with school administrators.
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Another student was robbed this week near the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, prompting campus police to issue an alert.
A University of Illinois at Chicago student was robbed at gunpoint several blocks west of the main campus this week.
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