[Peace] Re: [CentralILJwJ] GEO to strike Monday

[Mukta Tripathy]

Thanks so much for sending this out Ricky!  Please if you can volunteer for
picket shifts, send your name e-mail, phone number, and availability to me.
We need picket line workers M-F 8A-5P.

Thanks so much!

Solidarity
Mukta

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
>
> According to the GEO Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/GEO/171984109397?ref=mf>page, no agreement was reached last night and the strike committee voted
> early this morning to walk out over tuition waivers.
>
> Tuition waivers are, of course, important because if a graduate employee
> has to pay tuition in order to work at UIUC, it effectively wipes out the
> miserly pay that most of them receive.  The UI had been offering to pay grad
> employees IN-KIND (meal tickets, housing) instead of money.
>
> The same University that wasted millions on the research park, millions on
> the "Global Campus" boondoggle, heaps of cash on sky-boxes and bonuses for
> disgraced administrators (and a nice, fat paycheck after resignation) -- and
> a  million bucks on scholarships and specially created jobs for
> well-connected children and on attorneys' fees during the investigation
> alone -- says they can't afford to keep its obligations to the LOWEST PAID
> workers at the UI, who teach almost a fourth of its classes?
>
> I may have been born at night, but it wasn't last night.
>
> The UI also waited until the contract expired to start bargaining.  So this
> crisis is of their making (in case we hadn't noticed that there's profound
> mismanagement at the UI).
>
> Picket lines begin at 8am Monday morning around Quad buildings.  GEO will
> have strike captains there in charge.  Soldarity armbands are available for
> workers who have no-strike clauses in their contracts.  "GEO Solidarity"
> buttons are also available.
>
> Community support is very important to sending a strong message to this
> land-grant institution that we expect some responsibility for our public
> trust, to achieving justice, and to making this strike the shortest, most
> successful action it can be.
>
> See you there!
>
> In Solidarity,
> Ricky
>
> "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
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