The SIUC Administration has delivered its latest proposal to the university's Faculty Association but in the meantime tenured and tenure track faculty remain on strike.
A little after 5 o'clock Monday evening the bargaining team for the administration delivered a package of proposals that University spokesman Rod Sievers says addressed all of the issues the Faculty Association says it needed. Sievers says the administration's bargaining team is standing by ready to return to continue negotiations as soon as they are contacted by the Faculty Association's bargaining unit.
Faculty Association spokesman Dave Johnson says they were informed by the university's bargaining team that they wished to resume negotiations Tuesday morning. Johnson says the Faculty Association will seriously consider the board team's revised offer, but he says they're extremely disappointed that they have broken off negotiations for the evening. Johnson says that means the strike will continue at least one more day.
Both sides resumed negotiations Sunday afternoon and bargained throughout the evening and most of the day on Monday with the help of a federal mediator.
