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The Organizer (March 2002)

The Newspaper of the Graduate
Employees’ Organization IFT/AFT

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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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GEO Joins Other Unions, Parents to Demand Improved Child Care

November 19, 1999
At 12 Noon, about 150 mostly babies and their parents along with their supporters gathered on the steps of Swanlund Administration Building to demand better child care for employees and students of the University of Illinois. The rally was organized by the Graduate Employees’ Organization; Union of Professional Employees; American Federation of State, [...]

G.E.O. to Hold Three-Day Work-In

Urbana, IL – The University of Illinois has a world-class reputation for undergraduate education and research. But do the parents and students of Illinois know that this reputation is sustained by the labor of some 5,800 graduate student employees who work as teachers, researchers, academic advisors and clerical staff?
The University administration refuses to recognize graduate [...]