Grad Employees Stage Sit-In

[Peter K.]

Heard a report of this on WXRT, a Chicago rock station, yesterday but
nothing in the papers today. Carrol, why not take a break and head over to
lend some moral support?
Or sabotage any efforts to blare Backstreet Boys tunes at the protesters!


>[from list alum Dan Vukovich]
>
>>UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS GRADUATE EMPLOYEES
>>OCCUPY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
>>Graduate Employees Organization Demands
>>Recognition of the Right to Union Representation
>>
>>CHAMPAIGN/URBANA - - Demanding that university leaders meet with them,
>>fifty graduate employees, along with supporters from the faculty, student
>>government, local clergy and others from the Champaign-Urbana community
>>occupied the offices of the Board of Trustees at 3pm today.  Graduate
>>employees and their supporters sat down on the floors of offices inside
>>the building, while many others rallied outside the Henry Administration
>>Building.