UIC GEO

It's insulting to expect professionals to PAY for required job training and do HALF of their job for free.

We demand we be paid for ALL the work do, including the research that keeps research funding coming in and keeps this university at an R01 status, including the training we undertake to gain the expertise necessary to teach the classes we're employed to teach!

@GovPritzker is part of your strategy for resisting Trump's agenda to gut public higher education and starve the people who provide it? Graduate workers at UIC are being offered $24,442. That's a whole $442 over the threshold for SNAP. Such a generous offer! /s

We're not going to take this laying down. UIC thinks we're not even worth wages that keep up with inflation. UIC sees us as cheap labor, nothing more. But we know that UIC works because we do!

Bonus juice from the bargaining session before this one: "We're not interested in expanding anyone's rights"

The best part? We waited 70 DAYS for this wet fart of a proposal on wages, and then they RAISED the health care fee!

And if you disagree with that... "This isn't the place for you"

Some highlights from bargaining today, after the university passed a $242 raise for the first year, with no guaranteed raise after that: "We won't make sure you can pay your bills or live a comfortable life in the city of Chicago" (apparently no employer does!)

UIC admin should be ashamed of themselves.

@thisisUIC administration seems intent on slow walking the university out of its R01 status

That's all she wrote for today. Tune in next time to see whether the university team decides to treat this matter with the urgency it demands.

Bargaining working conditions is the foundation of bargaining. The university's refusal to respond to the MOU is a refusal to bargain over our working conditions. Unacceptable, and unserious, especially given the urgency of this situation for our international colleagues.

Second bargaining session for the full contract! We're passing language to bring the university back into compliance with IELRA, and to make sure workers can access their personnel files at any time.