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On September 25th, the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition voted ‘no’ on strike authorization with a 91 percent majority. The union voted ‘yes’ on setting a future strike date if negotiations with the university fail.  To provide insight into the graduate workers union, WFHB News spoke with Anne Kavalerchik, member of the Coordinating Committee for the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition.  She …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, September 27th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB News speaks with Anne Kavalerchik, member of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition, about the union’s recent ‘no’ vote on a strike for the fall semester. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Bloomington City Council gave an …

On Monday, the Bloomington Faculty Council passed two resolutions calling on the IU Board of Trustees to provide a pathway to unionization for the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition-United Electrical Workers. The first resolution passed with nearly 84 percent of the faculty council vote, and it insists that graduate students would not face retaliation by the university for striking. The second …

On Sunday, April 10th, a 97.8 percent affirmative vote by IU graduate workers set into motion the largest indefinite strike Bloomington has seen in decades. Everyday that we can, WFHB’s Strike Mic will bring you to the frontlines of this movement, allowing you to understand the issues and the action through the voices of the participants themselves. Today, the Bloomington …

In the late afternoon of Saturday, April 30, a dozen members of the Indiana Grad Workers Coalition picketed a major donors’ dinner at the IU auditorium. They were joined by several community supporters including a union steamfitter and a member of the Monroe County Education Association.  The dinner celebrates IU donors who contribute at the one, five, and 10 million …

Welcome to the latest edition of Strike Mic – Voices from the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition – in light of their strike against Indiana University. Today’s episode of Strike Mic will feature Michael Martin, professor at the IU Media School and former director of the Black Film Center, who spoke to picketers earlier this week. The audio from this segment …

Earlier today, more than 200 grad workers rallied in the Ballantine Hall courtyard. Bloomington’s own country musician, Peter Oren, performed for the pickets, playing tunes and talking about his experience with Occupy Bloomington and earlier waves of campus struggle. We are also sharing the words of Carven Thomas, the former president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union at …

This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, April 19th, 2022. Later in the program, we have Strike Mic – Voices from the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition – in light of their strike against Indiana University. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Bloomington City Council continues its conversation of increasing the local …

Welcome to the latest edition of Strike Mic – Voices from the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition in light of the recent strike at Indiana University. Today for Strike Mic, we spoke with Zara Anwarzai, a graduate worker and organizer with the Indiana Grad Workers Coalition.  She summed up the state of the strike so far and talks about IGWC’s next …

On Sunday, April 10, a 97.8 percent affirmative vote by IU graduate workers set into motion the largest indefinite strike Bloomington has seen in decades. Everyday that we can, WFHB’s Strike Mic will bring you to the frontlines of this movement, allowing you to understand the issues and the action through the voices of the participants themselves. The graduate workers …