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Speaker 1: From the WGLT newsroom, I'm Ryan Denham. The labor union

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Speaker 1: representing ISU's buildings, grounds, and dining services workers have delivered

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Speaker 1: an intent to strike. Renee Nessler is an AFSME staff representative.

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Speaker 1: She says filing intent to strike twice within 4 years

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Speaker 1: should not be the norm. ISU has set up to be.

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Speaker 1: It's unnecessary and all it does is strain current labor

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Speaker 1: and management relationships that we would really like to improve,

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Speaker 1: but they push us to, they're pushing us to the

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Speaker 1: brink again. The union seeks higher wages and a provision

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Speaker 1: to get pay raises when non-union workers get pay increases.

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Speaker 1: The previous contract expired last June. The university says in

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Speaker 1: a statement that it will continue to work diligently to

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Speaker 1: reach a fair and fiscally responsible contract with AFSCME.

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Speaker 1: The city of Bloomington is engaged in a huge planning

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Speaker 1: effort to look for ways to expand its drinking water supply.

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Speaker 1: Water director Brett Lucien says that one of the options

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Speaker 1: is to dig sediment out of the city reservoirs of

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Speaker 1: Lake Bloomington and Evergreen. We do think that we will

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Speaker 1: see some benefit if we were to do some dredging.

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Speaker 1: Lucian acknowledges that dredging is expensive. Other options include seeking

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Speaker 1: another surface water source or reviving a failed attempt to

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Speaker 1: create a regional well field involving smaller municipalities west of

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Speaker 1: the Twin Cities that would tap into the Mohammad Aquifer.

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Speaker 1: Lucian expects the issue to go to the city council

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Speaker 1: sometime in the next year. He says the city may

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Speaker 1: hire a consultant to help develop proposals.

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Speaker 1: 35 of Central Illinois Regional Airport's TSA officers are showing

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Speaker 1: up for work despite missing paychecks. Funding fights over the

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Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security continue to leave TSA without funding.

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Speaker 1: Airport spokesperson Melissa Beaver says CERA is mostly business as usual.

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Speaker 1: They've

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Speaker 2: been very dependable, showing up to work every day, and

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Speaker 2: the community.

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Speaker 2: And we've had a lot of community support and people

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Speaker 2: reaching out to say how can we help.

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Speaker 1: The

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Speaker 1: airport is collecting donated food and household supplies for the

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Speaker 1: TSA workers who are not getting paid. Beaver says wait

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Speaker 1: times have not increased because CERA does not see the

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Speaker 1: traveler load of major hub airports. Find more news at WGLT.org.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ryan Denham.