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Feel like you are working way more than you should? Maybe you are!
Did you know that our contract stipulates how many hours you should be working based on your level of assistantship? It does!
The only way to really know whether you are working too many hours and to prove it is to keep track. Download [...]

Rally for Quality Education

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29 4:30pm
IN FRONT OF FOELLINGER AUDITORIUM

All over campus, we see rising tuition, pay cuts, and larger workloads for instructors. These moves degrade the quality of education at the University of Illinois, and they’re part of a broader trend of eroding support for public education across the country. The University says it’s [...]

history

The GEO has been organizing since the early 1990’s 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.

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Full Text of 2006-2009 TA/GA Contract

(signed 3/26/07)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLE I PURPOSE
ARTICLE II RECOGNITION
ARTICLE III NONDISCRIMINATION
STATEMENT
ARTICLE IV APPOINTMENT TERMS
ARTICLE V ORIENTATION AND TRAINING
ARTICLE VI EVALUATIONS
ARTICLE VII HOURS OF WORK
ARTICLE VIII USE OF UNIVERSITY
RESOURCES
ARTICLE IX MANAGEMENT RIGHTS
ARTICLE X EMPLOYEE RIGHTS
ARTICLE XI EXPENSES
ARTICLE XII DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION
ARTICLE XIII PERSONNEL FILES
ARTICLE XIV STIPENDS
ARTICLE XV HEALTH CARE
ARTICLE XVI DUES DEDUCTION AND
FAIR [...]

mission

The GEO works to find common ground among all graduate employees, regardless of race, gender, religion, disability, sexual orientation, citizenship status, department, job category, or membership in the union. Membership in the GEO is, and will remain, voluntary.
The GEO strives to be inclusive and open to all graduate employees, operate along democratic principles, act always [...]

GEO Glossary: your complete guide to union jargon

GENERAL
Bargaining Unit: The workers who are legally represented by a union and are covered under the terms of the union’s contract. The unit may include all employees or may be limited according to type of work performed. At the University of Illinois, the GEO bargaining unit is approximately 2700 GAs and [...]

FAQ

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 [...]

Summary of Graduate Employee Union Contracts

The following summary was compiled from several graduate employee union
contracts. The contracts cover a range of universities, from ones with
older and more established unions to those with more recent unions and
from large to small universities. Listed below are some major highlights
from these contracts. The links included below will take you to each union’s
home page. For [...]

We’ve Won The Right To A Voice At Work!

GEO members to begin negotiating first grad employee contract
As graduate employees here at UIUC, we finally have a voice in the terms of our employment. On December 3rd and 4th, 2002, Teaching and Graduate Assistants voted by a margin of more than three to one for the Graduate Employees’ Organization IFT/AFT (GEO) to be our [...]