[Peace-discuss] union demos for Move-In Day - Thursday

[Ricky Baldwin]

SEIU 73 at it again!
Please pass it on.  SEIU Local 73 invites you to demonstrate on Freshman Move-In Day this Thursday August 18 from 12-1pm and again 3-5pm between two campus residence halls known as PAR & FAR, just off Lincoln Ave to the west, in the College Court median. This is between Pennsylvania Ave and Florida Avenues.

Parking will be virtually non-existent all day due to the parents and students moving into the res halls, which is why we are there.  The best advice we can give you is to either take the bus or park as far away as you can walk and hike over.  Signs will beavailable, but please feel free to bring your own.  We want parents and students to know that the issues they have heard about at Chicago State and Eastern are here, too, that we cannot perform the services as promised and that students and families have paidfor at past levels with the staffing levels we currently have, and that the State budget crisis does NOT mean the University is broke -- it's the administrative priorities that are broken.

At SEIU, in addition to critical and even dangerous understaffing and in some departments over 2 years with no hiring at all, we are facing very aggressive negotiating proposals, including a potential end to the eight-hour day and unlimited increases in parkingfees.  Not only this, but of course all State employees are facing a potential doubling (or more) of healthcare costs if the Governor gets his way, which is effectively a pay cut of between $1000-5000 for our members - some of whom, only make about $18,000 a year - and even worse for some others.

We have two different times to accommodate different schedules.  Please come when you can and stay just as long as you can.  Many hands make light work.  Thanks you as always for the wonderful solidarity in this community.

Ricky  
"Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes." 
- Maggie Kuhn
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