Strike

After two resolutions were passed at a historic special meeting of the Bloomington Faculty last night, the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition (IGWC-UE) voted with a 78% majority to suspend the strike until Sept. 26.

The IU Graduate Workers Coalition gathered Friday to bring their strike to incoming students touring campus.

Members of IU faculty met this week upon the initiative of members of the Graduate Faculty Council and the American Association of University of Professors.

Indiana University graduate student leaders say they’ve lost confidence in newly appointed Provost Rahul Shrivastav. It’s the latest move to put pressure on the university administration in support of the Graduate Workers Coalition, which is seeking to form a union.

The graduate workers coalition at Indiana University has voted with a 95% majority to extend its strike into finals week of the spring semester. The coalition continues to picket around campus daily.

Half a dozen faculty at Indiana University said they’re bracing for striking graduate student workers to lose their positions. They said their concerns stem from information they’ve learned at closed-door meetings with the Provost and other campus administrators.

Graduate students at Indiana University’s flagship Bloomington campus voted to extend their labor strike for another week. The student workers demand the university recognize their union and then begin negotiations for better pay and benefits.

Around 1,000 graduate student workers at Indiana University’s Bloomington campus are on strike to demand the school recognize them as a union. But the school says it has no intention of bargaining with the group – and no legal obligation to do so.

The Indiana University Bloomington Faculty Council is supporting graduate students' right to go on strike for a union.

Indiana University graduate workers in Bloomington are on strike starting Wednesday in search of union recognition. Due to potentially dangerous weather conditions, several in-person events including picketing and a student walkout were postponed to Thursday.