Overview

• The Valley View Council (Local 604) represents about 1,800 educators and staff serving students in Bolingbrook and Romeoville.
• District officials propose adding roughly 20 minutes to the high school day with earlier start times, which they say would improve test scores.
• Union leaders call the district’s compensation offer inadequate and object to a proposed new employee health insurance plan.
• About 95% of voting members authorized a strike earlier this month, the union said.
• Negotiators are scheduled to bargain today, and union president Jared Ploger says a walkout would be a last resort.