Two years of unprecedented administrative obstruction means it’s time for unprecedented action!
SAIC’s Non-Tenure Track (NTT) faculty (more than 80% of our instructors) are facing the possibility of playing their strongest bargaining chip: a strike, or work stoppage. Sign on below to pledge your confidence in our NTT faculty members to exercise their right to withhold work as a way of showing their power at the bargaining table! Solidarity with faculty now!
(Answers to all your strike-related questions can be found at bit.ly/ntt-faq.)
This fight will be inherently inconvenient and disruptive. Striking can bring up feelings of anger, frustration, and discontent – as it should! There is so much within this institution to be angry about! Channel that with intention. Don’t fault the practice of striking, but the administrative stonewalling that forced this action to occur. Your professors’ working conditions are your learning conditions. No class doesn’t mean your education is over.
The act of protesting is an education in itself—it teaches you the truth of your own values and the reality of what needs to change.
NTT faculty are overworked, underpaid, and undervalued despite being the driving force behind all our cherished parts of SAIC. NTT faculty have supported us unconditionally, and SAIC exploits this devotion. We must reciprocate the care that our faculty show us and echo their demands by supporting their strike preparations.
We, the undersigned students of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, echo our faculty’s call for fair treatment, support their right to exercise their power via striking, and are prepared to stand alongside them as long as it takes to win.