Bill Text: IL HR1025 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Urges City Colleges of Chicago to negotiate in good faith to reach a new collective bargaining agreement with City Colleges' part-time adjunct union and to provide an equitable and living wage for its part-time adjunct faculty.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-01 - Referred to Rules Committee [HR1025 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2015-HR1025-Introduced.html
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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, Part-time "adjunct" faculty teach approximately | ||||||
| 3 | 65% of the classes at City Colleges of Chicago (CCC); and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, Part-time faculty teach the same courses and are | ||||||
| 5 | required to have the same degrees as tenured, full-time | ||||||
| 6 | professors; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, A part-time faculty adjunct at CCC teaching 3 | ||||||
| 8 | classes per semester earns an average of $14,130 per year, well | ||||||
| 9 | under the federal poverty level of $24,250 for a family of 4; | ||||||
| 10 | and
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| 11 | WHEREAS, Part-time faculty adjuncts are often forced to | ||||||
| 12 | teach at multiple schools, thus denying CCC students the extra | ||||||
| 13 | help outside the classroom that is commonly needed from their | ||||||
| 14 | professor; and
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| 15 | WHEREAS, Chicago taxpayers are forced to pick up the | ||||||
| 16 | financial cost for the estimated one-third of part-time faculty | ||||||
| 17 | who receive governmental assistance; and
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| 18 | WHEREAS, The part-time faculty at CCC have now gone 3 years | ||||||
| 19 | without a raise or a contract; and
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| 1 | WHEREAS, Adjunct salaries at CCC are not at all competitive | ||||||
| 2 | with other comparable community colleges, as determined by the | ||||||
| 3 | Illinois Community College Board; and
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| 4 | WHEREAS, The Board of Trustees of CCC is subject to | ||||||
| 5 | appointment by and the jurisdiction of the Mayor of the City of | ||||||
| 6 | Chicago; therefore, be it
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| 7 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 8 | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 9 | urge City Colleges of Chicago to negotiate in good faith to | ||||||
| 10 | reach a new collective bargaining agreement with City Colleges' | ||||||
| 11 | part-time adjunct union, the City Colleges Contingent Labor | ||||||
| 12 | Organizing Committee; and be it further
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| 13 | RESOLVED, That we urge City Colleges of Chicago to provide | ||||||
| 14 | an equitable and living wage for its part-time adjunct faculty; | ||||||
| 15 | and be it further
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| 16 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 17 | delivered to the Board of Trustees of City Colleges of Chicago.
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