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	"author_name": "United Campus Workers of Kentucky: CWA Local 3365",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/united-campus-workers-of-kentucky-cwa-local-3365",
	"title": "Build a better future at EKU",
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	"description": "At the end of 2022, as EKU employees hoped for some sort of bonus to help alleviate the increased costs of the holidays, they received a different kind of surprise. University administrators sent down word of a “soft” hiring freeze, taking away the ability of departments to adequately staff their offices. This freeze is just one more item on a list of unfair decisions made by university administrators without any input from the employees they impact. Job compression has forced workers at this university to take on more tasks and longer hours even as wages have remained stagnant. For years at EKU, the only way for staff to increase their pay has been to apply for and be hired on to a new position. The university also uses every opportunity it can to take back the money employees earn through draconian payback policies on employee tuition waivers, limited tuition waivers for graduate assistants, and prohibitively expensive health coverage. Meanwhile, undergraduate workers are locked into unlivable low wages, forcing them to work multiple jobs while maintaining their status as full-time students. Put in this situation, many students have to fight debilitating stress and anxiety, even as they try to earn a degree from an institution that doesn’t prioritize them. All of these decisions are set against the backdrop of administrative bloat, where only the salaries of those in higher offices steadily grow. These problems have happened and will keep happening for a single reason: the workers at EKU have not had a say in how this university is run. This unjust and unethical status quo doesn’t work. It leads to rapid burnout of skilled workers and a lack of adequate services for the students we are here to educate and support. That’s why workers at EKU decided to start organizing in the fall of 2021. The work started slow, with little more than a dozen members releasing our first petition for fair cost of living adjustments, full staffing of departments and increased stipends for graduate students. Now, we have nearly 100 members with representation from all job classes across campus. We believe that the problems at EKU will continue unless workers come together in solidarity and leverage their power to make a more equitable EKU that can better meet the needs of its employees and the students we serve. Join us now in standing up to say enough is enough. Please sign our petition demanding President McFaddin and EKU administrators treat their workers with the respect we deserve!",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/build-a-better-future-at-eku"
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