Dear UIUC Faculty,
Greetings from GEO! We are writing to you today to ensure that you are
aware of the rights of international students and employees to
participate in activities related to collective bargaining. Â Most
especially, we want to emphasize to you that international graduate
students who are members of GEO and are employed in the GEO bargaining
unit have the [...]
The Personel Committee is happy to announce that David Beck will be joining the GEO staff as our new organizer. David is currently finishing up a M.A. in environmental justice/organizing and is excited to come back to UIUC where he earned a M.A. in Engineering a few years ago. He’ll be starting August 8th- stop [...]
The Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) is a democratic, volunteer-run union that has been fighting to improve graduate working conditions since 1988. Graduate employees come together through GEO to have influence over decisions which affect our every day lives. This post is intended to help you navigate the GEO site and decide whether you want to [...]
The Graduate Employees’ Organization IFT/AFT (GEO) is the official union that represents graduate students who work for the University as Teaching and Graduate Assistants.
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 if the contract has been [...]
Incoming Graduate Students — Welcome!
Welcome to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign! The Graduate
Employees’ Organization IFT/AFT (GEO)
is the union for all graduate employees at the UIUC. Furthermore GEO
is the official union that represents graduate students who work
for
the University as Teaching Assistants and Graduate Assistants. The GEO
just won a contract which includes many improvements for [...]
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