In the wake of last fall’s bitter, three-week strike, administrators at the City Colleges of Chicago are moving to fire as many as 140 part-time and emeritus faculty members who did not teach their classes during the walkout.

City Colleges Chancellor Wayne Watson said the part-time faculty members violated a no-strike clause in their contract by staying away from the classroom. The emeritus faculty members work under a separate arrangement. Watson characterized them as “at-will” employees who work at the pleasure of the administration. He said the retired teachers violated an unwritten “contract” with their students to provide them classes.

The decision not to rehire them has no impact on their pension or benefits, school officials said. The move potentially affects 76 adjunct faculty and 63 retired faculty members who had been slated to teach this spring. Watson says the college system has already found replacements for most of the vacancies, and he expected little impact on students when the new semester began in January.

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