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Naperville teachers authorize strike as school year begins without contract
August 14, 2025 // The Naperville Unit Education Association represents more than 1,500 teachers in the district. The president of the union told NBC Chicago they’ve been negotiating since February with the Board of Education and on Tuesday members voted to authorize a strike if necessary.
Cal State faculty start strike at largest US public university system
January 22, 2024 // “I have no interest in a strike. We are ready and willing to come back to the bargaining table with the California Faculty Association,” she said. “But we must work within our financial realities.” In contract negotiations earlier this month, the university agreed to 5 percent raises, which the union deemed inadequate. The university reached a labor agreement with its Teamsters union local over the weekend, which also prepared to strike. The strike follows a similar graduate student walkout at the University of California system in December 2022, which resulted in significant wage increases after 40 days of striking.
Lee County teachers reach deal for pay raise, 11.5% increase for most senior instructors
October 3, 2023 // Think of the pay scale of a slinky. Right now, it’s squashed, or compressed, together. This means there’s not much room between the salaries of employees with little experience and those with many years of classroom experience. To fix this, the school district came to the table with $32 million in funding for pay raises. The hangup was figuring out how to spend it across the bands. A band is essentially a defined range of years of experience. There are more than 6,000 TALC employees in the district, and the total number of Lee County employees is approximately 10,000.