[Peace] People of conscience take action!

[Sanjay Garla]

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PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE!
University workers need your help.

Members and supporters of the Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO) 
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are conducting a 
strike on Wednesday and Thursday, November 28-29.  The Interfaith 
Committee for Worker Justice (ICWJ) of Champaign County calls on all 
people of conscience to support graduate employees struggle for 
democracy in the workplace.


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Join ICWJ in the following activities:

*  Stand with graduate assistants on their picket lines.  Use your 
physical presence to show your support for their just cause.
*  Call Michele Thompson at the Board of Trustees' office (333-3493). 
Ask her to convey a message to the trustees that you support graduate 
assistants and that you want the trustees to recognize the GEO.
*  Send email to Chancellor Nancy Cantor (ncantor at admin.uiuc.edu), 
and remind her of her moral obligation to respect workplace 
democracy, an obligation she upheld while at the University of 
Michigan but which she has failed to uphold since coming to UIUC.

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A few handy facts:
* Over 3,200 Teaching, Research and Graduate Assistants asked for a 
union election in 1996--the administration refused to listen to them.
* In 1997, the GEO won an independent election, run by the Religious 
Workers Association, by a nearly 2 to 1 margin.  The administration 
still refused to meet with GEO.
* Since 1996, the University has spent more than $500,000 on 
lobbyists and lawyers alone to prevent graduate employees from having 
a voice.
* For more information on GEO, call their office at (217) 344-8283 or 
visit their website at www.shout.net/~geo.

This email is brought to you by the Interfaith Committee for Worker 
Justice of Champaign County.  ICWJ is dedicated to bringing the 
voices of faith to the forefront of the labor and economic justice 
movement.
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Graduate Employees' Organization
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1001 S. Wright St. (MC-390)
Champaign, IL  61820
(217)344-8283--phone
(217)344-8281--fax
http://www.shout.net/~geo
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