![Hundreds of graduate student workers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus rallied Feb. 26 as part of a strike by members of the graduate worker's union, the Graduate Employee Organization (GEO).](https://will.illinois.edu/images/uploads/48152/20180226_121607__medium.jpg)
U Of I Graduate Workers Go On Strike
Monday marked the first day of a planned strike by graduate student workers at the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign campus. On Monday afternoon, more than 400 graduate employees rallied on the campus’s main quad to call attention to the walk-out.