Monthly Archives: April 2009

Press release: Illinois Student Senate Endorses GEO Bargaining Platform!

By odellcampbell | April 30, 2009

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 [...]

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April 21st: Bargaining Begins

By admin | April 28, 2009

On April 21st, the University of Illinois Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) will begin negotiations with the University of Illinois administration to determine our new working contract. This contract determines the wages, healthcare, benefits, and workplace protections of the nearly 3,000 TAs and GAs employed by the university.
This contract is a critically important document; it will [...]

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