FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OVER 200 UIUC GRADUATE EMPLOYEES STAGE 8 AM RALLY FOR A FAIR CONTRACT AT U of I iHOTEL AND CONVENTION CENTER – GRADUATE EMPLOYEES’ ORGANIZATION TO HOLD STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTE NOVEMBER 4-6.
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (October 26) – At 8 am on Monday, October 26, over 200 members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) and [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OVER 200 UIUC GRADUATE EMPLOYEES STAGE 8 AM RALLY FOR A FAIR CONTRACT AT U of I iHOTEL AND CONVENTION CENTER – GRADUATE EMPLOYEES’ ORGANIZATION TO HOLD STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTE NOVEMBER 4-6.
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (October 26) – At 8 am on Monday, October 26, over 200 members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) and [...]
I’m reposting our press release regarding the administration’s contract proposal – as this is a press release, it has a bit less detail than some of our other internal communications. If you have any questions about details, please contact me at odell.campbell@gmail.com.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: GEO DISMAYED BY RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS WITH UIUC [...]
WHEN: Tuesday, August 11th, 1:30-5:00 pm
WHERE: Levis Faculty Center, Second Floor
Our GEO bargaining team members just finished their latest bargaining session with the University administration negotiating team. Again, the administration team was not prepared to offer any contract proposals, and instead finished asking clarifying questions about our contract proposal.
But, the University committed to present their [...]
Hello Friends,
Sandra Olsen, an undergraduate at UIUC, videotaped our “rally for a contract” on June 1st – its a great representation of the effort we all put in to move beyond “ground rules” and get back to bargaining. You can view the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX_ta5B3aoQ
As always, if you have any questions, please message me [...]
When we show up, they back down!
Today, all of us, the MEMBERS of the GEO, won a crucial victory in our contract negotiations with the administration! We are now one step closer to achieving the goals of our bargaining platform. Around 80 graduate employees and allies demonstrated outside of our first federally mediated session and [...]
Not mentioned in the story linked here is the inspiring campaign supporting the CMU grad student’s effort: on a recent AGEL (Alliance of Graduate Employee Locals) conference call, one of the CMU grad students talked about some of their efforts before the vote, including a phone campaign where union parents called the president of CMU [...]
Hello Friends,
This is Peter Campbell, your new communications officer. I’m writing to
provide everyone with some more details and explanation of what’s going on
with bargaining, and why the bargaining team has gone into federal
mediation with the University administration. Before I get into the
details, I want to say that after our initial announcement of what
happened [...]
Despite our presentation of a comprehensive contract proposal to the
administration team during our first bargaining meeting, the University
continued to refuse to respond to or discuss any aspect of our proposal at
the second meeting. Instead, the administration team attempted to insist
on the imposition of extraneous restrictions on Union activity as the
grounds for bargaining. The [...]
The Bargaining Team needs your help! We’ve created a VERY short online survey to help with our proposals on health care and child care. It only takes two minutes, but it will really help our team to present the best proposals.
If you would like to take the survey, please contact Dave Beck at dbeck@uigeo.org or [...]