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UO Grad Students Go on Strike Today

Tiffany Eckert

15-hundred Graduate Teaching Fellows at the University of Oregon are set to go on strike Tuesday.  This is the first labor strike in the 38-year-old union's history. About 200 GTFs and their supporters rallied Monday evening  in front of Johnson Hall, the Administration Building on campus.

Chanting: "GTFF, GTFF, GTFF,…. "

Graduate Teaching Fellows are asking the University for 2 weeks of paid sick leave and 2 weeks of family leave in addition to a boost in pay. The University says it cannot afford to provide paid leave. Amber Cooper is staff organizer for the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation.

Cooper: "We would love to go back to the table right now! We are ready to go back to that table anytime they are ready to agree to paid leave for GTFs."

The Union plans to walk out Tuesday at 8 a.m. Cooper says the GTFs will strike until they have paid leave. Next week is finals week at the U of O. The Administration says it will offer extra staff to help with grading during the strike.

Rachael McDonald is KLCC’s host for All Things Considered on weekday afternoons. She also is the editor of the KLCC Extra, the daily digital newspaper. Rachael has a BA in English from the University of Oregon. She started out in public radio as a newsroom volunteer at KLCC in 2000.
Tiffany joined the KLCC News team in 2007. She studied journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia and worked in a variety of media including television, technical writing, photography and daily print news before moving to the Pacific Northwest.
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