{"id":35813,"date":"2026-04-20T15:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=35813"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T20:27:58","slug":"faculty-at-university-of-illinois-springfield-reach-tentative-agreement-to-end-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/35813-faculty-at-university-of-illinois-springfield-reach-tentative-agreement-to-end-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty at University of Illinois Springfield Reach Tentative Agreement to End Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><h4>(University of Illinois Springfield faculty union president Dathan Powell speaks at a news conference on the first day at the campus on April 3, 2026)<\/h4>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Classes resume as union calls for chancellor\u2019s resignation<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By BEN SZALINSKI<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"mailto:bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bszalinski@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Article Summary<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faculty at the University of Illinois Springfield ended a more than two-week strike on Monday after reaching an agreement with administrators.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a statement, the union said they ended the strike over fears it was negatively impacting students and called on the university\u2019s chancellor to resign.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two parties were far apart as of last week on pay increases.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Terms of the agreement will not be disclosed until it is approved by both parties, but classes returned to a normal schedule on Monday.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This summary was written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPRINGFIELD \u2014 Faculty at the University of Illinois Springfield ended a more than two-week strike on Monday after reaching an agreement with university administrators overnight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tenured and tenure-track faculty at UIS, one of three University of Illinois system institutions, went on strike on April 3 after failing to reach an agreement with UIS administrators over pay increases. The two parties came to an agreement after hours of negotiations on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both sides declined to specify the terms of the agreement until after the UIS United Faculty union could ratify the agreement in the coming days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur bargaining team made the difficult decision to suspend this strike because we do not want our students to lose further instructional time as they head into final exams and graduation,\u201d Dathan Powell, the union president and UIS theater professor, said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It appeared the strike would start having more substantial impacts on students if it continued into another week. The university sent an email to students on Friday announcing it was prepared to implement a plan this week to help students complete the semester if the strike continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Read more: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/university-of-illinois-springfield-faculty-go-on-strike\/\"><b>University of Illinois Springfield faculty go on strike<\/b><\/a><b> | <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/faculty-strike-at-university-of-illinois-springfield-continues-into-second-week\/\"><b>Faculty strike at University of Illinois Springfield continues into second week<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The university said alternative plans would be made for students who were not able to complete their assignments because their professors were on strike. Not all classes at UIS were held up by the strike, however, as many professors are part of a different union.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The union indicated their decision to end the strike was more about ensuring students can complete their classes than any victory in bargaining meetings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They claimed UIS Chancellor Janet Gooch \u201cintentionally prolonged\u201d the strike.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We cannot let her jeopardize their education and futures any longer, so we have decided to bring the administration\u2019s last offer to our membership for a vote,\u201d Powell said, calling on Gooch to resign her leadership role.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UIS said in a brief statement that it \u201clooks forward to continuing to work together to fulfill its mission to provide a uniquely student-centered educational experience, both in and out of the classroom.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A spokesperson for Gooch declined to comment. Gooch took over UIS in 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Parties were still far apart<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both parties remained far apart on the size of salary increases as of Friday, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uis.edu\/hr\/labor-employee-relations\/uis-bargaining\/tenuretenure-track-chapter-upi-local-4100\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">university\u2019s website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The union wanted a 2.6% increase in the current fiscal year and 6% over the next two years, costing $1.3 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UIS offered three options for increases, two of which begin with 1% raises that could increase under the University of Illinois system\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/massmail.illinois.edu\/massmail\/1162046230.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University Salary Program<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. They argued one-third of the union already makes six figures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The union also wanted to raise the minimum starting pay for their unit to $64,500 from $55,000, which UIS argued was not realistic given financial constraints on the university. The university offered to raise the minimum salary to $60,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UIS said in an email to students last month that it was running a $19 million deficit in the current fiscal year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UIS accounts for 2% of all of the university system\u2019s spending in the current fiscal year, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustees.uillinois.edu\/trustees\/agenda\/September-18-2025\/12b-Sept-25-Approve-System-Budget-FY26-Sept-25-FY26-System-Budget.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">system\u2019s budget documents<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign receives 44% and the University of Illinois Chicago 31% while the rest goes to the system\u2019s administration and university\u2019s hospital. UIS also receives only 3% of state funds allocated to the system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State lawmakers have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/news\/university-funding-overhaul-bill-advances-in-house-despite-u-of-i-opposition\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">debating<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a new higher education funding formula that would allocate a greater share of annual funding to lesser-funded schools like UIS. Institutions like the flagship campus that are more adequately funded would receive a lower percentage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The system has continued to oppose the overhaul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. It is funded primarily by the Illinois Press Foundation and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(University of Illinois Springfield faculty union president Dathan Powell speaks at a news conference on the first day at the campus on April 3, 2026) Classes resume as union calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Faculty at University of Illinois Springfield Reach Tentative Agreement to End Strike - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/35813-faculty-at-university-of-illinois-springfield-reach-tentative-agreement-to-end-strike\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Faculty at University of Illinois Springfield Reach Tentative Agreement to End Strike - 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