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SEIU Graduate Workers Union in stalled talks at Illinois State University
March 1, 2021
10:51 AM CDT
By Zach Carlson
Graduate Worker Union members with Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who empathized with the workers, saying that his daughter was a grad worker in Connecticut and “got paid peanuts” as well, September 2018. | SEIU
NORMAL, Ill.—In October 2018, Illinois State University’s more than 400 graduate workers voted to officially unionize and be represented as SEIU Local 73. The long months of meetings, difficult one-on-one conversations, procedural documents, and learning the process of organizing a workplace paid off for the graduate workers involved.