04/29/2026
📢 Solidarity Forever 📢
GWU stands in solidarity with AFSCME Local 1110 on day 22 of their strike for a fair contract. It was great to see so many people across campus out in support of these workers that make ISU run!
We’ve also learned more about shameful strike-breaking behavior from ISU admin. See our bio for the link to read more, below is an excerpt from AFSCME Council 31:
“Documents show that Illinois State University has already paid or committed to pay more than $150,000—at rates from $38 to $197 an hour—in just three contracts with private, for-profit companies for temporary replacement workers, commonly known as strikebreakers or scabs.
At least two of the contracts—revealed by a Freedom of Information Act request—were developed before more than 300 buildings, grounds and dining services went on strike April 8. They show ISU contracting for scabs even as the parties remained at the bargaining table, where the university was refusing to negotiate—suggesting that, rather than bargaining in good faith, ISU administrators were secretly scheming to break a strike and force workers to accept the university’s takeaway demands.…”
