Update \\ FMLA leave available to you

As you may already know, the Federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic includes expanded Family and Medical Leave benefits for public employees. As our members are public employees (working for a state University), this benefit applies to us. We highlighted the section that we believe already applies to many of our members with children. This benefit is … Continue reading Update \\ FMLA leave available to you

Update \\ COVID-19 & Unemployment Insurance

31st March 2020We are currently trying to find out if the new Federal CARES Bill will now include graduate student appointments in its scope of employees qualifying for unemployment benefits. Historically, graduate workers have been excluded from unemployment, and it remains to be seen how the state is interpreting this bill. No one has been able to … Continue reading Update \\ COVID-19 & Unemployment Insurance

Newsletter \\ Vol S20.7: How to do your part for Bargaining RIGHT NOW

GEO Leadership is collecting inputs from you. The sooner we get these together, the sooner we can make demands to management and bargain over them. As you know by now, we are in a phase of Impact Bargaining, so fight together for security while we are impacted by the pandemic and campus measures in response … Continue reading Newsletter \\ Vol S20.7: How to do your part for Bargaining RIGHT NOW