Faculty in Greece are on strike, and have been for two weeks. The government is attempting to bust the strike in Larissa by trying to bring in profs on charges that they broke the law in another protracted strike last year. Interestingly, professors are still getting paid - ostensibly because they're still researching even though they aren't teaching.

Meanwhile, the Daily Pennsylvanian, UPenn's student newspaper, reports that president Judith Rodin snubbed AFL-CIO president John Sweeney when he came to speak to her about graduate student unionization on behalf of GET-UP, Penn's Grad student union with the best acronym since FRACAS. GET-UP wants Penn to agree to count the ballots and recognize the results of last year's election. Penn, whose president Judith Rodin used to be the Dean of the Yale Grad School (and, some longtime GESO members claim, was brought in to crush the union,) is following Levin's leadership in trying to get the NLRB to overule the 2000 NYU decision which said that graduate student teaching assistants and researchers are employees and have the right to organize unions and bargain collectively with their universities.

MEANWHILE, CNN reports on the strike at Miami of Ohio. You can find the union's webpage here. In addition, you can contact these officials via email (their phone numbers are in yesterday's post.)
President James C. Garland garlanjc@muohio.edu
Vice President Richard M. Norman normanrm@muohio.edu
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