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University Workers Demand Wage Increase Outside Curators Meeting

Mark Perrigo has spent the last 28 years painting the buildings and walls of MU. He said he had pride in being an employee of the university — until the implementation of merit-based raises in 2017.

“I do not understand how the university claims to be a flagship of Missouri and doesn’t even care about their employees,” Perrigo said.

Perrigo joined about 40 protestors Thursday on the steps of Memorial Union to oppose the results of this week’s union bargaining with the UM System.

Representatives from the Laborers’ International Union of North America, or LIUNA, met with UM System officials Tuesday and Wednesday. The union representatives proposed a minimum wage of $15 an hour for its 1,500 full-time service and maintenance workers at MU, University Hospital and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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