This is a guide for you as a Steward or rank and file member to help you with getting in touch with faculty members in your department about current demands and needs of grad students. You can tweak this to make it suit your department, but here's a script which includes all the important links and arguments that will make it hard for a faculty member to say no! It encourages faculty to stand up for us at an institutional level so that it's not a fight of us versus our faculty, but rather us versus unfair and precarious conditions.
GEO Officer Elections 2020-2021 Candidate Statements
Nominees for Co-Chair: Shao Yu (Dora) Tseng Hello fellow workers. My name is Shao Yu, Tseng (I also go by Dora). I am a second-year master student in Higher Education and Public Policy dual degree program. It is a great honor to be nominated and run for the candidacy for GEO Co-Chair position. With Jyoti’s … Continue reading GEO Officer Elections 2020-2021 Candidate Statements
Membership Meeting \\ Tonight at 6
At Stewards' Assembly last night, feedback received included a feeling that some rank and file members are out of the loop on why various actions are happening, and the motivations for the fighting stance taken by GEO leadership towards the university administration. Let's talk about that more tonight! We welcome your participation in the membership … Continue reading Membership Meeting \\ Tonight at 6
Bargaining \\ We reject management’s “offer”
April 23, 2020 To: Administration’s Bargaining Team CC: GEO Membership In our last meeting we discussed four proposals to address the impact of unilateral changes to working conditions of GEO members. To these, the administration has chosen to respond with a proposed MOU to only one. We are hopeful that this represents a misunderstanding. GEO … Continue reading Bargaining \\ We reject management’s “offer”