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As we get settled into a new academic year, keep in mind the following first-month events with the GEO – let’s all keep up the good work to protect our contract and the future of public education in Illinois! 1. First Steward’s Council meeting of the year, Wednesday, September 1, 5:30 pm in the YMCA, 1001 [...] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: UIUC STRIKE CONTINUES TUESDAY 11/17 AT 8 AM ADMINISTRATION SPREADS MISINFORMATION ABOUT PICKET LINES URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (November 17): On Tuesday, November 17, at 8 am, the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), AFT/IFT Local 6300, AFL-CIO, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), will continue its strike against the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. [...] From the AAUP website at http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/about/pres/let/gradstrike.htm. This morning at 7:45 I was on the University of Illinois campus for a graduate student employee rally. After a bargaining update, we moved in groups to begin picketing key campus buildings. The Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), was going [...] Come join new and returning grad students at the GEO’s Welcome Back Social at the Independent Media Center 202 S. Broadway in Urbana on Friday, August 28th. In addition to meeting new members & catching up with returning grads, we will be receiving an important update from the GEO bargaining team concerning contract negotiations at [...] GEO End o’ Semester Social LGBTQA Caucus Tuesday LGBTQA Caucus Tuesday Many students at the University of Illinois continue to promote the appropriation of stereotyped Native American imagery and culture as the University’s mascot and cultural identity. Though University administrators, in 2007, made formal declarations that the dancing “Chief” and the phrase “Chief Illiniwek” would no longer have official status as University “symbols,” they failed [...] |
NewsUpcoming Events with the GEO on August 31st, 2010 Tuition Waivers Threatened Again (VIDEO) on July 23rd, 2010 EMERGENCY TUITION WAIVER FORUM - STOP THE ATTACK ON THE ARTS AT UIUC! on July 8th, 2010 Open Letter to top UI Administrators from the GEO on April 19th, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: UIUC GRADUATE EMPLOYEES’ ORGANIZATION TO JOIN UC UNITED COALITION ON LOBBY DAY AT SPRINGFIELD APRIL 21 on April 19th, 2010 Latest CommentsOn Tuition Waivers Threatened Again (VIDEO) on August 23rd, 2010 On Tuition Waivers Threatened Again (VIDEO) on August 21st, 2010 On FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: GEO RESPONDS TO CHANGE IN TUITION WAIVER POLICY IN THE COLLEGE OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS AT UIUC WITH PUBLIC FORUM ON POLICY CHANGE on August 6th, 2010 On FAA Tuition Waivers on July 23rd, 2010 On FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: GEO RESPONDS TO CHANGE IN TUITION WAIVER POLICY IN THE COLLEGE OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS AT UIUC WITH PUBLIC FORUM ON POLICY CHANGE on July 19th, 2010 |
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