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Faculty Association sets strike date Non-Tenure Track Faculty Association to decide today SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian Tenure and tenure-track faculty members represented by the Faculty Association will go on strike in two weeks if a settlement is not reached. The Departmental Representatives Council â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the governing body for the Faculty Association â&#x20AC;&#x201D; voted Thursday, 29 to one, in favor of a strike Nov. 3. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strike is always a means of getting an agreement,â&#x20AC;? said Dave Johnson, DRC chair, after the vote
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trike is always a means of getting an agreement. If we can get an agreement, that would be our preference by far.
count was tallied. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we can get an agreement, that would be our preference by far.â&#x20AC;? While faculty members are not obligated to strike, they will have to cross the picket line if they choose not to. The House of Delegates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the governing body for the Non-Tenure Track Faculty Association â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will discuss today if and when they will set a strike date, said NTTFA President Anita Stoner. Graduate assistants, faculty and staff represented by Illinois Education Association unions have been without contracts since June 2010, when their previous contracts
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Dave Johnson Departmental Representatives Council
ended. From Sept. 27 to Oct. 5, dues-paying members of the unions voted and authorized a strike date to be set if no further progress was made toward a settlement. The vote was the last legal step toward a strike. A press release from the FA stated university administrators chose to shut down negotiations in spring of 2011, imposing a set of demands on the faculty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Negotiations resumed over the summer, but very little progress was made, leading FA members to vote on Sept. 28, by an overwhelming margin to authorize their elected representatives ... to initiate a
strike,â&#x20AC;? the release said. FA President Randy Hughes said the union and the administration bargaining teams have met almost every day for two weeks since voting to authorize a strike date, but little progress has been made with certain issues. He said the key issues have been narrowed down, but could not go into detail because it would give too much insight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I want those issues to be resolved at the table,â&#x20AC;? he said. The press release said in order to resolve issues, the union offered to postpone resolution in areas such as conflict of interest policy and a
revision of the sexual harassment procedure if the issues could be bargained to a resolution in a set time frame. Johnson said although there has been increased frequency in meetings and some productive conversation, there has been no major progress on issues that divide the two sides. Hughes said Tuesday there has been a change in what is happening at the bargaining table. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought for a long time very little was productive, and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say any progress has been made when it comes to the very key issues and concerns that are preventing us to a settlement, but we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seen nearly enough progress on those key concepts,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we do have is more productive and we have more narrowly isolated the issues that need to be resolved.â&#x20AC;? Please see STRIKE | 2
Mayor would like to see routes on Highways 13, 51 Fritzler in favor of bike lanes downtown ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian Riding a bike through downtown may get easier if new routes are put along Carbondaleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main thoroughfares. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes it a little safer if you have that white line painted with little bikes there,â&#x20AC;? Mayor Joel Fritzler said. Fritzler said he wants to put more commuter bike trails in the city, particularly along U.S. Route 51 and Highway 13, which would include Walnut and Main Streets, and Illinois and University Avenues. He said there arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t currently any concrete plans, but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mentioned it to the Illinois Department of Transportation, which seemed receptive. He said plans for the routes were shot down in the past. Bike lanes are typically installed when other work is being done to a road, said Tom Ridgell, spokesman for IDOT. There isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any work planned for 51 or 13 in IDOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2017 Multi-Year Plan, the blueprint for upcoming road projects, Ridgell said. However, the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always willing to work with communities to make plans, and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potential to work bike routes into it, he said.
ISAAC SMITH | DAILY EGYPTIAN
Ryan Grumberg, a graduate student in philosophy from Carbondale, repairs a bike wheel Wednesday at The Bike Surgeon in Carbondale. Mayor Joel Fritzler said he is interested in adding bike routes on
U.S. Route 51 and Highway 13 through Carbondale, though he said no steps have been taken to start building. Grumberg said he believes extending the bike paths is a great idea.
There are currently several city-designated bike routes in Carbondale. Poplar Street among others has a bike route, but the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
University Avenue, which has a lot of rental housing. He said residents were angered when East College Street was changed from a one-way
main streets lack them. Fritzler said the major issue with adding bike lanes would be the loss of parking space, particularly along
with parking to a two-way with no parking to accommodate the new Public Safety Center. Please see BIKE | 2