LABOR BEAT VIDEO: 'Two day strike at UIC...'
A new Labor Beat video, "Two-Day Strike at UIC" is now available on YouTube at: http://youtu.be /fp50pyPHj-U. They had been working for 18 months without a contract, so they had no other choice but to call a two-day strike. On February 18-19, 2014 University of Illinois/Chicago United Faculty put up picket lines at the west-of-the-Loop city campus. Over a thousand faculty members and student supporters marched, chanted and spoke to the media. Then they returned to contract negotiations after demonstrating to the administrating the strong campus-wide support for the teachers. The URL is: http://youtu.be/fp50pyPHj-U
Picket line at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Labor Beat photo by Steve Dalber."It's outrageous the increases in tuition," Joe Persky, UICUF President told a big rally on the first day of the strike. "The increasing profits of the University now making more than the University of Phoenix, a profit-making institution. $1.3 billion in reserves...One lecturer's students over a year bring in $300,000 to the University. That lecturer is making $30,000 a year. Only 10 cents on the dollar is going for instruction."
Also interviews with John Casey, English Department lecturer, and Caroline Gonzales Kuehner Habert, undergraduate student. "I am highly, highly in favor of the faculty getting a fair contract," Caroline said. "Our learning conditions are affected by their working conditions." Length - 8:35
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