UIC Graduate Workers Ratify New Contract after a 3+ Week Strike

After 13 months of negotiations and over 3 weeks on the strike line, more than 1,500 graduate and teaching assistants of the University of Illinois Chicago Graduate Employees Organization (UIC-GEO) Local 6297 have successfully secured and ratified a new collective bargaining agreement.  According to a recent UIC-GEO Facebook post, the graduate workers’ new 3-year contract—which includes the largest wage raise in the GEO’s history—contains no union concessions.

Local 727 is proud to have donated $5,000 to the UIC GEO Local 6297 strike fund to assist the UIC grad workers as they fought for fairness.

“Congratulations to UIC-GEO members on their spectacular win,” stated John Coli, Jr., Secretary-Treasurer of Local 727.  “Local 727 was proud to stand in solidarity with UIC grad workers as they persisted on the long tough road to a fair contract.  Whenever Local 727 can support our fellow union Brothers and Sisters, rest assured we will be there ready to fight.”

Nothing in this article should be read as the union’s waiver of any legal argument, position or grievance. The union does not forfeit its right to make any and all supplemental arguments.

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