Dive Brief:

• University of Illinois at Chicago faculty are planning to stage the first faculty strike in the university’s history today.
• The strike will last two days and involve 1,100 faculty members.
• Wages are the key issue, with the union seeking a higher minimum for non-tenured full-time lecturers and a 4.5% merit pay increase.

Dive Insight:

A university spokesman said one of the reasons negotiations have lasted 18 months is that the union is only two years old and there is no "template" for coming to an agreement.