January 26, 2010, 10:19 am
Today is our third meeting with the administration’s negotiating team using the traditional bargaining format. The membership meetings on Wednesday and Thursday will include updates from the latest bargaining sessions.
Wednesday , Jan 27, noon – 1 pm SU 218
Thursday, Jan 28, 1:40 – 2:50 pm Lower Level Library Classroom
The UPI table is set up in Village Square today…if you can’t find it check near the Golden Eagles room from 11-3.
Find out what you can do to move negotiations forward.
January 25, 2010, 11:02 am
We have membership tables set up in the Student Union today and tomorrow from 11-2 pm. Drop by and pick up the latest materials.
Be sure to come to one of the membership meetings this week. Wednesday at noon…still waiting for a room assignment and Thursday at 1:40 in the lower level library classroom.
January 14, 2010, 11:56 am
Our next membership meeting is scheduled on Wednesday, January 27 from noon to 1:15 pm in a location to be determined. The meeting will be repeated the following day, Thursday, January 28 from 1:40 – 2:50 pm in the lower library classroom.
Hope to see you soon.
January 11, 2010, 4:28 pm
The UPI Local 4100 website has a collection of articles and editorials about the Illinois fiscal crisis from around the state. I will continue to post some of these publications to the NEIU/UPI listserv but don’t want to clog your email with each posting made by the local. When time permits check it out.
January 6, 2010, 8:48 am
Waiting for Cash in Illinois
January 6, 2010
It’s easier to promise money than to pay it out. That’s the tough lesson being learned in Illinois, where revenue shortfalls have left public colleges with a backlog of $770 million in appropriations approved by lawmakers and still undelivered.
Faced with its own backlog of $436 million, the University of Illinois System announced furlough and hiring freeze plans Tuesday that would trim $82 million from its operating budget. The effort is designed to buy the university some time as officials wait for money that few believe will arrive in full before the end of the fiscal year, June 30. Though the 2009-10 fiscal year is already half over, the Illinois system has received just 7 percent of the funds the state appropriated to it for the year that began July 1.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed
