Indiana University recently made public its plan to dismiss 50 hourly workers from custodial and maintenance jobs in the Bloomington physical plant department. The University will then force these workers to re-apply for their jobs through a temporary agency, Manpower, located in Columbus, Indiana. This move comes in the wake of restrictions on the number of hours worked by part-time staff and support workers, as well as massive lay-offs in the affiliated IU Health system.
So maybe you have heard the news: Indiana University is going on strike! Organized by Student Power IU (SPIU), the strike is scheduled for Apr. 12, 2013 to coincide with a meeting of the IU Board of Trustees.
The IU April Strike: Contexts and ConsiderationsWith Prof. Christopher Newfield (UC Santa Barbara)Friday, Feb. 8, 12:30-1:30 pmWylie 005 Christopher Newfield (English, UC Santa Barbara), author of Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class (Harvard, 2011) is visiting Bloomington for a College Arts and Humanities Institute roundtable.