“I am convinced that justice is a constant struggle, and where you find no struggle, you find no justice.” ~ Bryan Stevenson, Alabama’s Equal Justice Initiative Key dates in GEO history Spring 1995 Affiliation with IFT/AFT Winter 1995 First attempt to reduce tuition waivers April 1996 Petition filed for a union election Spring 1997 First [...]
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The 1,750 graduate employees, represented by Graduate Assistants United (GAU), at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have now been working without a contract for more than 480 days. They are joined by tenured and tenure-track, civil service employees and non-tenured faculty – together making up 3,500 unionized employees on the SIUC campus. This past Monday members of GAU voted to [...]
The members of the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), Illinois Federation of Teachers Local 6300, AFL-CIO, stand in solidarity with the members of the Tacoma Education Association (TEA) and their courageous decision to strike for a fair contract. Members of the GEO understand that withholding labor is vitally important as a tool in collective bargaining. It was only by first authorizing [...]
The GEO has been organizing since the early 1990s for democracy in the workplace, better education, increased stipends, better benefits, and other changes to make life as a Teaching, Research, or Graduate Assistant better. Graduate employees have been organizing at the University of Illinois since the early 1970s when a group called the Assistants Union [...]
News-Gazette coverage of ongoing contract negotiations between the university and several of its unions (including the GEO) Click the title above to read the story…
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 NYUs refusal to negotiate a second contract. If you need a GEO t-shirt, stop by the office in the [...]
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. Click the title for more information.
General Questions about GEO What is the Graduate Employees’ Organization, and what are its goals? Why should I join the GEO? Who is allowed to be a member of the union? Are there other universities with graduate employee unions? Contract Questions Did we already have the protections stipulated in the contract? What do I do [...]
PREAMBLE We, the members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), are committed to the principles of participatory democracy. Thus, as graduate employees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (“the University”), we claim the right to participate in making decisions that affect our lives. This can only mean our bona fide representation in University governance. [...]
This is the proposed constitution that will be put to the GMM this Wednesday. The motion will be “That the Constitution of the GEO be replaced by the proposed text posted on the GEO website.”