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The UIC Graduate Employees Organization announced that its striking members will return to work on Monday and vote on an agreement reached on Friday. The agreement calls for a 14% raise over three years. Furthermore, the agreement will allow the members to make up for the hours lost during their strike.
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Seven students were arrested at Loyola University Chicago yesterday. They blocked the entrance to LUC’s administrative offices and called for the school to treat them like employees and increase their stipends from $20,000 to $26,000. Graduate School Dean Fr. Thomas Regan insists there will be no negotiations. He stated, “Our stipends are competitive with our competition, we don’t have the multi-billion dollar endowments that some of the Ivy Leagues might have and so we gave them the best possible package that Loyola can afford.”
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Campus police removed 16 protesting graduate students at University of Wisconsin-Madison when they refused to leave when the building closed. Police noted they were peaceful and no charges were pressed. The students were protesting for “living wages” for their union members, lower fees and improved working conditions.
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We just blogged that the NLRB announced it will be ruling on whether graduate school students who teach should be classified as employees.
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Graduate students at University of Chicago went on strike today. Currently, stipends at U of C start at $27,000.
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The strike at University of Chicago was called to an end after three days. The union declared they showed how much the university depends on them. Their demands were not met however.
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Washington University in St. Louis is raising its minimum wage for staff to $15 per hour. In July 2021. On Monday, July 1, the minimum wage will be raised to $12.65. Next July, that rate jumps to $13.80. Graduate school students who work for the university are not covered by this new policy.
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Late Friday, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker signed House Bill 252. This new law will allow public research assistants, graduate assistants and teaching assistants to unionize. It goes into effect Jan. 1.
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We just blogged about a proposed NLRB ruling that graduate students at private universities are not considered employees. We also explained how this broad-brush ruling differs from previous NLRB rulings and what it likely means for most private universities.
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The Harvard Crimson reports that the university’s graduate student union will hold a strike authorization vote next week. However, the level of support seems unclear. The Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers will need two-thirds of the votes to be authorized to call a strike.
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