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Teaching Assistants Resolve Strike at University of Illinois
Produced by City Room on Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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Teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign say they've come to a tentative agreement with school administrators.
They walked out over concerns about tuition and health care.
Union spokesman Peter Campbell says the two-day strike was the only way to get the university back to the table after months of negotiations.
CAMPBELL: I hope that in the future the administration will be more willing to work together with the graduate employees organization and other labor groups on campus so that a strike would not be necessary.
University officials say they've offered the best deal possible to the students.
They've offered each teaching assistant about fifteen hundred dollars over the next three years, and upgraded health care options.
It was the first time members of the union have gone on strike. They teach more than twenty percent of classes at the U of I.
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