OVERVIEW:
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Wednesday, 5/27 at 5:30pm @ YMCA
The GEO is entering mediation with the Administration in an effort to get them talking about our contract proposals. Come along to the GMM to hear the latest news and get your questions answered. The Bargaining Team will be on-hand to explain mediation as a process, the unions [...]
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 [...]