Hundreds of NIU employees want to join state worker union

[Omaha Steve]

Source: QCOnline

DEKALB (AP) — About 650 workers at Northern Illinois University have signed a petition and filed it with the state labor board asking to organize under the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union.

The 650 workers include clerical, paraprofessional, technical and administrative employees. AFSCME represents other NIU employees and about 5,000 other state university workers.

The workers' request comes after employees say they've gone years without pay raises and have increasing workloads.

"Forming ourselves as a union is at least an option to get us better pay," said Jennifer Jeffries, who started working at NIU in 2011 as an office support staffer.

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[RKP5637]

1. K&R! n/t

[jwirr]

2. IMO that is good not only for the workers but the Union. The bigger the better. I think this is the

second state this is happening in and hopefully it will grow across the country.

[GOLGO 13]

3. I belong to a NYS employee union

And it's the best thing ever. More unions is what we need in this country. The enemy has grown powerful over the decades & wants us all enslaved to their ee-vil corporate brutality.

[Doctor_J]

4. great news

Hang together or hang separately

[mysuzuki2]

5. I am an NIU alumnus.

I support their efforts to unionize 100%!