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 [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Illinois Student Senate at Urbana-Champaign Overwhelmingly Votes to Endorse Graduate Employee’s Bargaining Platform
URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (April 29) – The Illinois Student Senate at Urbana-Champaign voted overwhelmingly last week in favor of a resolution that expresses full senate support for the Graduate Employee’s Organization’s bargaining platform in the GEO’s current contract negotiations with the UIUC [...]