[Peace] Re: [sf-core] Re: [CIGMB] GEO to strike Monday

[Mike Lehman]

Picketing shifts run until 5pm each day. There may be other things going 
on after that though.
Mike Lehman

Gene Vanderport wrote:
>
>
> Ricky, do you know how late the picket will run in the afternoon or 
> evening?
> Germaine
>
> --- On *Sun, 11/15/09, Ricky Baldwin /<baldwinricky at yahoo.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>
>     Subject: [CIGMB] GEO to strike Monday
>     To: "AWARE peace" <peace at lists.chambana.net>, "prairie greens"
>     <prairiegreens at lists.chambana.net>, "socialist forum core"
>     <sf-core at yahoogroups.com>, "Central IL Wobs" <cigmb at iww.org>,
>     "Community Courtwatch" <discuss at communitycourtwatch.org>, "central
>     il jwj" <CentralILJwJ at yahoogroups.com>
>     Date: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 9:28 AM
>
>     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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