UIUC Strike

After months of negotiation, the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) at UIUC has gone on strike. The GEO, a part of the American Federation of Teachers/Illinois Federation of Teachers Local 6300, AFL-CIO, represents teaching assistants and graduate assistants on the UIUC campus. They estimate that approximately 23% of undergraduate classes at UIUC are taught by TAs or GAs, yet their salaries draw only 6.5% of state funding. Details about the strike appear in Inside Higher Ed BlogU's, The Education of Oronte Churm.