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Eastern’s chapter of University Professionals of Illinois, EIU-UPI, continued their strike on Monday for the third day following a “disappointing” bargaining meeting on Friday for EIU-UPI’s negotiation team. EIU-UPI met at Morton Park at 7:30 a.m. and headed over to Old Main to picket at 8 a.m. to continue the third day of the strike....

Eastern’s chapter of University Professionals of Illinois, EIU-UPI, will strike starting Thursday morning after a year-long negotiation period with Eastern. The union held a membership meeting to discuss the Eastern administration’s negotiating team’s new contract proposal from Monday. EIU-UPI and administration have been negotiating for a new contract for over a year. EIU-UPI’s bargaining held...

Eastern’s chapter of University Professions of Illinois, EIU-UPI, negotiations have been ongoing for over a year. With the lack of a resolutions to Union members obtaining a contract, teachers did their work at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. Teachers titled this event as ‘work out’ suggesting that teachers worked out in public for...