DeKALB NIU instructors and supporters gathered to protest at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Commons near the Holmes Student Center. The protest was organized by the NIU Instructors Chapter of the University Professionals of Illinois (UPI), Local 4100. UPI is the union for non-tenured instructors rehired every semester. UPI.
Educators are the backbone of any university. They are faces students interact with often and have the most responsibility in teaching the next generation in the labor force. NIU’s tenure and non-tenure-track faculty are the faces that make up that instructional cohort on campus. Members of the University Professionals of Illinois Local 4100 have been.
“We're ready to negotiate and we are just waiting for them to return to the table. They're obligated to do so by law, so we truly do not understand their refusal.”
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