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MURPHYSBORO – The Murphysboro Education Association (MEA) today filed its intent to strike notice with the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (IELRB). The notice allows MEA to legally strike in 10 calendar days. MEA members voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The earliest date educators could walk is Tues., Oct.…

GLEN ELLYN – Today, the College of DuPage Faculty Association (CODFA) voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. CODFA held an all day, campus wide vote and tallied the count this evening. This is the first strike vote in nearly 25 years for CODFA. The vote gives the CODFA bargaining team the…

HIGHLAND PARK – Today, the North Shore Education Association (NSEA) and community members will rally for a fair contract. The rally comes after negotiations stalled with North Shore School District 112. NSEA members have been working without a contract. “The Board and the NSEA continue to lack agreement on major issues including…

ADDISON – Today, the Addison Teachers’ Association (ATA) and Addison community members will walk in support of students and teachers for a fair contract. The unity walk comes after negotiations stalled with Addison School District 4. “We won’t stop fighting until we get what’s best and fair for our students,…

The Springfield Education Association and the District 186 Board of Education (BOE) have been in contract negotiations for the last four months without coming to an agreement on a new  contract. The nearly 1,300 members of the SEA, comprised of teachers and support professionals, have been working since mid-August without a…

ROCKFORD – The Illinois Education Association (IEA) in conjunction with the Rockford Education Association (REA) is planning a statewide day of action to coincide with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ visit to Jefferson High School in Rockford on Mon., Sept. 16. “It’s unfortunate that our Secretary of Education has…

CARBONDALE – Today, the Carbondale Educational Support Professional Association (CESPA) and Carbondale community members to rally for a fair contract. The rally comes after CESPA submitted their last contractual offer to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (IELRB) for public posting. The CESPA offer was posted on Wed., Sept. 11.…

MURPHYSBORO – The Murphysboro Education Association (MEA) submitted the organization’s last contractual offer to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (IELRB) for public posting. Once the IELRB posts the last offer from MEA and the Murphysboro Community Unit School District 186 Board of Education (BOE) on the IELRB website, MEA…

CARBONDALE – Today, the Carbondale Education Association (CEA) and the Carbondale Educational Support Professional Association (CESPA) individually submitted the organizations’ last best contractual offers to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board (IELRB) for public posting. Once the IELRB posts the last best offers from CEA, CESPA and the Carbondale School…

GLEN ELLYN – Today the College of DuPage Faculty Association (CODFA) released a statement in response to the College of DuPage (COD) Board of Trustees (BOT) outright rejection of CODFA’s latest contract proposal. Instead of offering proposed changes to the CODFA contract, the BOT then issued its own contract proposal. In…

SPRINGFIELD — Today, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the $40,000 minimum teacher salary bill, ensuring no teacher in Illinois will be able to make less than that amount by 2025 and helping to strengthen the future of the profession. Before now, the state school code set the minimum salary for teachers…

GLEN ELLYN – The College of DuPage Adjuncts Association (CODAA) this week overwhelmingly voted to reject the College of Dupage (COD) Board of Trustees’ (BOT) short-term contingency offer in the event the College of DuPage Faculty Association (CODFA) goes on strike. The offer from the BOT, which included health insurance…

GLEN ELLYN – Hundreds of faculty, students and community members are expected to wear red and attend a rally on the College of DuPage (COD) campus on Thursday evening. The rally comes after negotiations have intensified between the College of DuPage Faculty Association (CODFA) and the COD Board of Trustees…

SUGAR GROVE – The following is a joint statement from the Kaneland Education Assocation (KEA) and Kaneland Community  Unified School District #302: The Kaneland Community Unit School District #302 Board of Education (BOE) and the Kaneland Education Association (KEA) have reached tentative agreement on a collective bargaining agreement.  The tentative…

SUGAR GROVE – Hundreds of Kaneland Education Association (KEA) members and community supporters wore red and packed a special Kaneland Community School District 302 board meeting on Tuesday night. The meeting was scheduled to discuss the district’s $2.7 million budget surplus. The following statement is attributable to KEA chief negotiator…

LAKE VILLA – Eighteen teachers along with administrators will travel to Puerto Rico to provide professional development training to more than 100 Puerto Rican educators. These Illinois teachers represent elementary, middle and high schools from six different school districts including: Community High School District 117 (Lake Villa), Lake Zurich Community…

SUGAR GROVE – Hundreds of Kaneland Education Association (KEA) members and community supporters plan to wear red, rally for a fair contract and pack the Kaneland Community School District 302 board meeting on Mon., June 24. KEA has been negotiating with the district for more than seven months. “We are…

SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois Education Association (IEA) worked with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle and the governor’s office to ensure the passage of several pieces of pro-public education legislation during the 2018-19 legislative session in Springfield.

SPRINGFIELD – Lawmakers took action to help save the teaching profession and repealed the 3 percent salary threshold on teacher salaries and reinstated the 6 percent salary threshold. The change was attached to the budget implementation bill.