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CFAC Strike

All stories related to the CFAC union strike that began Oct. 30, 2023.

Part-time faculty and students gather in front of the 600 S Michigan building to begin their strike on Monday, Oct. 30, 2023.

College marks one-year anniversary of historic part-time faculty union strike

By Allison Shelton and Vivian Richey
October 30, 2024
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Explainer: Breaking down the bargaining agreement

By Miranda Bucio and Vivian Richey
January 23, 2024
Senior illustration major Sofia Desantis loads paper into a printer at the Digital Print Center, located on first floor of the 623 S Wabash building on Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024.

Students returning for spring semester hopeful, worried about lingering impact of historic strike

By Vivian Richey, Assistant Campus Editor
January 22, 2024
Deb Takehara, a IFT Director and Susan Smith, part-time design professor talk outside of 618 S. Michigan Ave. as CFAC picket lines spread through campus on Tues., Nov. 7, 2023.

Breaking: Part-time union to meet with members to review tentative contract deal

By Miranda Bucio, Bilingual Reporter
December 18, 2023
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Breaking: College reaches tentative deal with part-time faculty union to end historic strike

By Olivia Cohen and Miranda Bucio
December 17, 2023
College, union still not in agreement as winter break looms 

College, union still not in agreement as winter break looms 

By Olivia Cohen, Editor-in-Chief
December 15, 2023
The part-time faculty union is pushing for a central advising committee that would recommend course caps and make decisions about curriculum. They were on the picket line again on Friday Dec. 8, 2023, in their six-week-long strike against the college. Full-time faculty want curriculum decisions to be made at the department level. Any kind of a central committee "is against the principle of faculty owning the curriculum,” Faculty Senate President Madhurima Chakraborty said.

Full-time faculty want decisions about curricular changes, class sizes to be made at program level and not with ‘central advisory committee’

By Vivian Richey and Uriel Reyes
December 8, 2023
A protester standing outside of 600 S. Michigan Ave. on Dec. 8, 2023 in solidarity with the part-time faculty union, who has been on strike to fight unfair labor practices.

Explainer: Federal mediators can be effective but so far the union, college remain apart

By Olivia Cohen, Editor-in-Chief
December 8, 2023
Parents of Columbia students share concerns about impact of six-week-long strike

Parents of Columbia students share concerns about impact of six-week-long strike

By Vivian Richey and Allison Shelton
December 8, 2023
Breaking: Nearly half of part-time instructors are now teaching during the strike, the college reports

Breaking: Nearly half of part-time instructors are now teaching during the strike, the college reports

By Allison Shelton and Vivian Richey
December 5, 2023
College, union agree to federal mediator as historic strike continues into sixth week 

College, union agree to federal mediator as historic strike continues into sixth week 

By Olivia Cohen, Editor-in-Chief
December 1, 2023
River Wise, a junior Theatre Technology and Design major creates a paint guide for an upcoming show. Wise is working in The Shop located on the first floor of the Theatre buidling at 72 E 11th St.

Students going into a unionized profession have conflicting emotions due to part-time faculty strike

By Connor Dore, Senior Reporter
December 1, 2023
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