News-Gazette coverage of ongoing contract negotiations between the university and several of its unions (including the GEO)
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GEO members will show solidarity with the grad employees of GSOC/UAW Local 2110 at NYU by wearing their GEO t-shirt on November 9th.
Unionized graduate employees at New York University voted to strike in response to NYU’s refusal to negotiate a second contract. If you need a GEO t-shirt, stop by the office in the University [...]

Unionized graduate employees at New York University have voted to authorize a strike set to begin on November 9. Members of GSOC/UAW Local 2110 are calling the strike in response to NYU?s refusal to negotiate a second contract.
Check Local 2110’s website for updates.
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Admin Changes Its Tune
Why The GEO Membership Is Taking Action
What’s A Union Good For?

Admin Changes Its Tune

In an effort to shore up their anti-union stance, the administration has been trying hard to convince the university community that the GEO’s 2-day work stoppage of last semester was a "non-event." Unfortunately for them, their own rhetoric reveals [...]

Today the Illinois Supreme Court affirmed that graduate
employees in Illinois have the right to collective bargaining. The Supreme
Court decision is the definitive ruling in the lengthy legal battle over
whether graduate employees in Illinois have the right to unionize.

Today’s decision marks a major victory in the GEO’s struggle
for union recognition.

The case will now [...]