UIC management uses competitive bargaining, so unions have to do the same

The UIC United Faculty union went on strike Tuesday after failing to reach a contract agreement during a marathon bargaining session Monday. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

As the Sun-Times’ Nader Issa pointed out in his article on another University of Illinois Chicago faculty strike, since 2014 faculty at all three U. of I. campuses have each gone on strike, some multiple times, as have graduate student workers multiple times at UIC and U. of I. at Urbana-Champaign.

This is a shocking record. Unionized faculties across America seldom strike because they, just like U. of I. faculty, are very protective of their students.