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Galesburg Nursing Home Employees Strike over Nickel Raise
More than a few dozen striking Galesburg Terrace Nursing Home employees held signs and protested owner Michael Lerner's failure to negotiate a new contract Tuesday.

Dawn Derham is Certified Nurses Assistant at the home. She says workers have been without a contract for almost a year now, but continue to work. Derham tells WGIL the union isn't asking for anything outrageous.

"We're just trying to get a fair raise and a fair grievance procedure," she said. "He (Lerner) only wants to offer us a nickel, and we're only asking for seventy-five cents."

And that seventy-five cents, Derham says, is a lower than what the Service Employees International Union asked for last September. However, she says Lerner hasn't moved off his proposed five-cent raise.

Derham says Terrace workers are barely making more than minimum wage. As for when's enough is enough, she says she doesn't know.



(ABOVE: Two union members hold signs opposing the contract Galesburg Terrace Nursing Home employees have been offered; BELOW: Other sights from Tuesday's picket outside the nursing home at Hawkinson Avenue and Frank Street).







(WGIL Photos and News Story by Kyle Schassburger).
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