Monday, October 3, 2011

GA Strike Vote


According to the DE, the Graduate Students United voted today to authorize a strike after this Thursday..  From the article, it appears that the union tail is wagging the graduate assistant dog.  Of the 1700 graduate assitants on campus, only about 130 of them actually are members of the union, meaning that less than 10% of of the graduate assistant are determining the fate of the other 90%.  Of those 130 or so, 88%, according to the article, voted to go out on strike.  Since they have the union representing them, for better or worse, if I was a graduate assistant at SIUC, I'd join up with GA United, just so I would have a say in events like this. 

It will certainly be interesting, given how few of them joined or voted, how many graduate assistants cross the picket lines should a strike be called.  I'd bet the vast majority will opt to report to work as ususal, given how few of them appear to have any interest in the negotiations.

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