The United Faculty of Illinois State University (UFISU) and Illinois State University reached three tentative agreements on Workload, Assignment of Duties and Identification of Union Representatives during a negotiation session on Friday. During this session, two additional sessions were added alongside the previously scheduled Wednesday, April 2, and Friday, April 4, sessions. The new sessions will be held on Tuesday, April 1, and Thursday, April 3.
The negotiation session lasted around 13 hours from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. UFISU described the three tentative agreements as a “huge win” on its website.
“We have been in discussion about paths to agreement on these topics for weeks (or, over a year if you count that we submitted the original proposal in our first bargaining session on February 28, 2024,” the UFISU website said in its bargaining update post…