Plaintiffs include ISU students, the Normal Township supervisor, and the local union president who is an ISU building service worker. More than 300 ISU building services, grounds, and dining services employees have been on strike for two weeks while asking for better pay.
if the replacement workers receive nothing more than the union workers receive, apparently what they are asking for is excessive and let them be replaced.
Morefandave
1 month ago
What on earth does Giannioujalis’s office have to do with ISU trash? What a pompous jerk. He doesn’t know a thing about what the parties are negotiating over. As a past negotiator for a public employer, that pap he’s putting out about always being able to reach a satisfactory agreement is garbage. If one side makes up its mind that it has to have some unreasonable provision in the contract, settlement is difficult or impossible. And the taxpayers are going to foot the bill for everything extra ISU puts on the table, not that Alexi cares; he’s too interested in… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
if the replacement workers receive nothing more than the union workers receive, apparently what they are asking for is excessive and let them be replaced.
What on earth does Giannioujalis’s office have to do with ISU trash? What a pompous jerk. He doesn’t know a thing about what the parties are negotiating over. As a past negotiator for a public employer, that pap he’s putting out about always being able to reach a satisfactory agreement is garbage. If one side makes up its mind that it has to have some unreasonable provision in the contract, settlement is difficult or impossible. And the taxpayers are going to foot the bill for everything extra ISU puts on the table, not that Alexi cares; he’s too interested in… Read more »