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MAJOR VICTORY FOR LABOR

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: GEO STRIKE COMMITTEE VOTES TO OFFICIALLY SUSPEND STRIKE

TEACHING AND GRADUATE ASSISTANTS AT UIUC RETURNING TO WORK PENDING CONTRACT RATIFICATION VOTE

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. [...]

American Association of University Professors Statement of Support

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 [...]

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: FOR THE FIRST TIME, MAJOR STUDENT UNION AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS OVERWHELMINGLY VOTES TO AUTHORIZE A STRIKE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FOR THE FIRST TIME, MAJOR STUDENT UNION AT UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS OVERWHELMINGLY VOTES TO AUTHORIZE A STRIKE

GRADUATE EMPLOYEES’ ORGANIZATION REPRESENTS ONE OF LARGEST LOCAL HIGHER EDUCATION BARGAINING UNITS IN THE UNITED STATES

URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS (November 7): On Monday, November 9th, the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [...]

Welcome Back Social

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 [...]

Tuition Waivers

Some Tuition Waivers to be Cut!

Recently, UI administrators formally told GEO representatives that they are planning cuts to the current tuition waiver policy.
Included is an elimination of tuition waivers for those with less than a 33% appointment (current policy provides tuition waivers for appointments of 25% and greater), and an elimination of tuition waivers for [...]

GEO Social

GEO End o’ Semester Social
Thursday, Dec 11, 5pm
7pm
Esquire Lounge (Walnut St. @ University Ave., one block east of Neil St. in Champaign)
Food and Drinks Provided! All are welcome.

LGBTQA Caucus Meeting

LGBTQA Caucus Tuesday
December 9, 2008
6:30 PM
Rainbow Coffeehouse (Green and Goodwin)
1. Homo A Go Go: The Caucus is considering making a donation to this festival, which is happening this summer in San Francisco. Come to the meeting to discuss/vote. For more info, visit www.homoagogo.com.
2. Caucus Film Series: For our next event, we discussed sponsoring an outdoor [...]

LGBTQA Caucus Meeting

LGBTQA Caucus Tuesday
December 2, 2008
6:30 PM
Rainbow Coffeehouse (Green and Goodwin)
The LGTBQA Caucus of the GEO offers the opportunity to learn more about the LGTBQ representation in the Graduate Employees’ Organization and to help promote community, solidarity and social justice.
All are welcome!
For more information contact Jaime: brunton2 AT illinois.edu

GEO 2002 Resolution on the “Chief”

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 [...]