{"id":150,"date":"2009-11-16T11:52:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/?p=150"},"modified":"2011-07-29T23:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T03:00:51","slug":"students-strike-for-tuition-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/archives\/150","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Students Strike for Tuition Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"geo\"<\/a>The IFT\/AFT Local 6300 AFL-CIO is on strike<\/strong> as of 8:00 a.m. \u00a0Picket lines run 8-5 today. \u00a0The union voted 92% yes for a strike. \u00a0Visit a strike coordinator in the University YMCA to find out where to go.<\/p>\n

The Campus Faculty Association<\/strong> stands in support of the GEO. \u00a0The CFA has asked faculty to cancel classes and not to cross picket lines. \u00a0Faculty “We Support the GEO” picket signs are available at the picket lines.<\/p>\n

Catherine Predergast (Professor of English) has this to say about the situation:<\/p>\n

As it stands, TAs in many departments here are already drastically underpaid compared with what other schools in the CIC offer. \u00a0For example, one course in freshman composition is calculated to consume 17 hours of a TAs time per week at the University of Wisconsin. At the University of Illinois, that same course, which I direct, is only calculated to consume 13 hours. The real losers here are our undergraduate students.<\/strong> Why should they accept four hours less per week of instructional time than they would get at Wisconsin? If the University were to tinker with tuition waivers, whether in-state, or out-of-state, thus even further down-grading its support to graduate students, you might as well rename this \u00a0East Central University of Illinois, so shattering would be the consequence to the UofI’s R1 status. I think the GEO’s version of the language on tuition waivers is by far clearer than what the university has proposed, and should be accepted. \u00a0 Please invest in this university: \u00a0Approve the GEO contract.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many graduate students receive free tuition (called a tuition waiver<\/strong>) as part of their compensation. \u00a0This strike comes about after the administration failed to guarantee the security of these waivers in the future. \u00a0TAs rightfully have the jitters on that topic: rumors have been circulating about an impending overhaul in the tuition waiver system. \u00a0Undergraduate TAs in Chemistry recently had their teaching\u00a0waivers\u00a0revoked<\/strong> as a cost saving measure. \u00a0(One of them is our babysitter.)<\/p>\n

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EO facebook page:
\nhttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/GEO\/171984109397<\/a><\/p>\n

You can help! \u00a0Phone numbers and script for calls for support:
\nhttp:\/\/funferal.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/15\/geo-strikes-and-seeks-help-from-you\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Longer blog post summarizing the situation and the strike:
\nhttp:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/blogs\/the_education_of_oronte_churm\/strike_at_illinois<\/a> (This post also points out that the last time Grad Students were on strike the results were disastrous for adjunct faculty on our campus.)<\/p>\n

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The IFT\/AFT Local 6300 AFL-CIO is on strike as of 8:00 a.m. \u00a0Picket lines run 8-5 today. \u00a0The union voted 92% yes for a strike. \u00a0Visit a strike coordinator in the University YMCA to find out where to go. The Campus Faculty Association stands in support of the GEO. \u00a0The CFA has asked faculty to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4M7Bm-2q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/niftyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}