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	"author_name": "Illinois Federation of Teachers",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/illinois-federation-of-teachers",
	"title": "Tell Provost Coleman that UIUC workers deserve bread and roses",
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	"description": "At a preeminent public institution known for world-class research and learning, those who do the work to instruct, research, and serve students face serious inequities in treatment and pay. Non-tenured faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are in the midst of contract negotiations with their employer. Unfortunately, what Provost Coleman is offering is the bare minimum – and not nearly enough to compensate these faculty members after years of inflation, stagnant wages, and ever-increasing workloads. Likewise, food and building service, clerical, and technical workers are seeing this same pattern in their bargaining. Food and building service workers in SEIU Local 73 were offered less than a quarter an hour raise. AFSCME Local 3700 administrative and clerical workers are paid so low that there is a staffing crisis, which directly impacts the student experience. And technicians and specialists in AFSCME Local 698 are fighting for wages that will help keep up with the cost of living. For each group, what Provost Coleman is offering is insulting – the bare minimum. But UIUC is not a bare minimum institution in any sense of the term. People come from all over the world to learn AND work here. Those who do deserve much better. The unions representing these workers are standing in solidarity to say WE’VE HAD ENOUGH. It’s time to give these workers the respect – and pay – they deserve. Please stand with us and send an email to Provost Coleman. Tell him: UIUC workers contribute to the success, prestige, and operations of this university. It’s time to pay them fairly. Working conditions are students learning conditions. UIUC students benefit when faculty and university workers have what they need to do their jobs. This pattern of the bare minimum needs to end here. Thank you for standing with us. The UIUC workers in NTFC Local 6546, SEIU Local 73, AFSCME Local 698, and AFSCME Local 3700",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/2725483c4a85e867ca869f0ba7d92d0e3ad09b63"
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