<div dir="ltr">to add to Ricky's post...<br><br>Grad employees on campus earn on average about $16,000 a year. Without tuition waivers this entire income would not even cover the entire cost of tuition, fees, books, and health insurance.<br>--<br>Academic year tuition rate for graduate students at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: <br><div class="gmail_extra">Base:     $12, 488 ; Nonresident: $26,980<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Highest: $39,000  ; Nonresident: $48,672<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- Law school has its own set of tuition levels between 35,000-49,500 --<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Academic year for graduate students:<br>Fees:     $ 4,222   <br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Books & supplies: $ 1,800<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Health insurance: $ 1,170<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Room or rent: <br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Food: <br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Transportation, clothing: <br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><br>References:<br>1. 2017-2018 Academic Year Graduate & Professional Tuition Rates. <a href="https://registrar.illinois.edu/g-tuition-rates-1718">https://registrar.illinois.edu/g-tuition-rates-1718</a><br><div class="gmail_quote">2. 2018-2019 Academic Year Graduate Estimated Additional Expenses. <a href="https://registrar.illinois.edu/g-additional-expenses-1819">https://registrar.illinois.edu/g-additional-expenses-1819</a><br><br>On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 1:27 PM, Ricky Baldwin via Peace-discuss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><div>Good afternoon, fans of justice!</div><div><br></div><div>Grad employees on campus earn on average about $16,000 a year, well below the UI's own livable wage standard.  Without tuition waivers this would largely just go straight back to the University.  For such basic economic and other reasons grad employees at UIUC have been fighting for a union for many years.  It took years to win legal recognition and bargain their first contract.  Then in 2009 the GEO had to strike to get guaranteed tuition waivers and other basic provisions in writing.  The University immediately reneged and only after a long and costly arbitration did the GEO prevail, only to have the University refuse to abide by the arbitrator's decision (a serious violation of labor law), and GEO had to fight again - and did prevail again.  Now the UI is trying to back out again - as well as refusing to bargain in good faith over grad employee pay and stonewalling other important issues.</div><div><br></div><div>So the GEO just  this morning set a date to strike if the University does not seriously change its tune in bargaining:</div><div><br></div><div>Mon. Feb. 26</div><div><br></div><div>Please sign up to join the picket line!  Community support is crucial.  I am part of a small committee coordinating signups by allies, so you can email me (privately, please, off list) your name, number, and what time you can picket Mon. Feb. 26 (preferable) between 8AM-5PM, or Tuesday 2/17.  Or you can try this nifty googledocs signup, which Nick Goodell set up:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CeiYqXB2oazP90-703UwbXfWnHBZNiHqmLuJVJNqjWc/edit#gid=0" class="gmail-m_-5140633052939610364enhancr_card_8274895100" target="_blank">Strike Support Sign-Up</a><br></div><div><br></div><div id="gmail-m_-5140633052939610364ydp2aabfe12enhancr_card_8274895100" class="gmail-m_-5140633052939610364ydp2aabfe12yahoo-link-enhancr-card gmail-m_-5140633052939610364ydp2aabfe12ymail-preserve-class gmail-m_-5140633052939610364ydp2aabfe12ymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Segoe UI,Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CeiYqXB2oazP90-703UwbXfWnHBZNiHqmLuJVJNqjWc/edit#gid=0" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail-m_-5140633052939610364ydp2aabfe12yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><table class="gmail-m_-5140633052939610364ydp2aabfe12card-wrapper gmail-m_-5140633052939610364ydp2aabfe12yahoo-ignore-table" style="max-width:400px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table class="gmail-m_-5140633052939610364ydp2aabfe12card gmail-m_-5140633052939610364ydp2aabfe12yahoo-ignore-table" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224,228,233);border-radius:2px" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-m_-5140633052939610364ydp2aabfe12card-primary-image-cell" style="background-image:url("https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/GH1Urnkkogi.NJGyjGV5MA--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://lh5.googleus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