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 [...]

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.”

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GEO Members’ Information – Do Not Distribute
The seventh bargaining session between the GEO and the university administration covered several issues of the contract: Revised Pay Dates, Distribution of Information, Employee Rights, and Grievances.

Spouses of international students who had previously been denied the ability to obtain drivers’ licenses are now able to do so for a short period of time, thanks to the diligent work of Leo Zulu, a member of the Graduate Employees Organization’s bargaining team. Below is a letter that he sent to the Director of [...]

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Contents

Grad Employees Win Union Rights: Vote To Be Held
This School Year
GEO Reacts To New Policy On International
Grad Employee Pay
The Balancing Act: Budget Cuts & Grads
Pay Cuts, No Pay For Orientation: A Testimonial
From The English Department
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Contents

 
Why Strike?
In Wake of Fall Strike Administration Moves
to Improve Grad Life
Strike for Your Students: Why Grad Unionization
is Good for Undergrads
What Is The GEO Trying To Do?
 

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