[Peace-discuss] the Graduate Employee Organization won a grievance against the University of Illinois

[Jenifer Cartwright]

Wow, this is huge, Karen, wahoo!!! Pls send this to the NG and DI at once!! Maybe consider translating the last line, e g united we stand (we're much larger than a village).   --Jenifer

--- On Wed, 9/21/11, Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Karen Medina <kmedina67 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Peace-discuss] the Graduate Employee Organization won a grievance against the University of Illinois
To: "Peace-discuss List" <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 11:28 AM

[For some reason, this news has not made it in to the local media. So,
I thought I would write the story and share it with you. -karen
medina]

In 2009,
tuition waivers were the issue.
GEO went on strike.

Tuition waivers were added to the contract.
We signed and went back to work.

Then, in the tiny FAA department, tuition waivers for new students
were not given.
GEO filed a grievance.
The U of I administration claimed our contract did not apply to
incoming students. They demanded that we drop the grievance or they
would take us to arbitration.

September 2011, an outside arbitrator decided that the U was wrong.
GEO won again.

Our contract is secure for now.
The U must repair the damage to incoming FAA students.
Congratulations to the union and all those protected through it.

El pueblo unido
_______________________________________________
Peace-discuss mailing list
Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/attachments/20110926/0cf51c2e/attachment-0001.html>