Nearly 50 graduate teaching fellows and supporters rallied on the steps of the University’s administration building Thursday, protesting what they called low wages and asking for fair contract negotiations.
“We are below the federal poverty level,” graduate teaching fellow Jey Strangfeld said during the rally, which included a march through Johnson Hall and the Lillis Business Complex. “We got a 2 percent increase this fall, but the past two years we’ve been put under a wage freeze.”
University President Dave Frohnmayer said he hopes the cordial and friendly relationship between the administration and the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation will continue.
“We hope for a contract that will be helpful to everyone,” Frohnmayer said.
The current GTFF contract officially expires in March.
– Nicholas Wilbur
Graduate Teaching Fellows protest wages at rally
October 27, 2005
GTFs rally outside Johnson Hall on Thursday for better wages in their new employment contract. The current contract expires in March.
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