This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, April 17th, 2024. Later in the program, WFHB features perspectives from the Indiana Graduate Workers’ Coalition. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, “Time To Not Share” on Better Beware – your weekly consumer watchdog segment on the WFHB Local News. But first, your local headlines: …
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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 …
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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 …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, August 9th, 2022. Later in the program, Indiana University announced that it will increase the minimum stipend and waive mandatory fees for graduate workers. WFHB News Director Kade Young speaks with Katie Shy, Media Correspondent for the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half …
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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 …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, May 25th, 2022. Later in the program, 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. More in the bottom half of tonight’s show. Also coming up in the next half hour, we …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, May 24th, 2022. Later in the program, WFHB News speaks with Katie Shy, media correspondent for the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition, about two recently passed resolutions by the Bloomington Faculty Council calling on the IU administration to provide a pathway to unionization for the IGWC. More in today’s feature report. Also coming …
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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 …
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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 …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, May 5th, 2022. Later in the program, we have an excerpt from Interchange – The Knowledge of Power: Graduate Worker Exploitation at Indiana University. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, the Bloomington Board of Zoning Appeals met late last month to discuss …
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