The Chronicle: Strike by Graduate Teaching Assistants Disrupts Some Classes at U. of Illinois
Many classrooms at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are sitting empty today as a result of a strike by graduate students who teach or do research.
About 1,000 graduate students employed by the university have signed up to picket academic buildings in shifts today, with about 500 on the lines at any one time, said Peter O. Campbell, a spokesman for the Graduate Employees Organization, which has about 2,600 members. Graduate students generally teach about 23 percent of all undergraduate course hours on the campus.
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