Fellow workers, We are writing to remind you that some members will need to manually re-enroll in Student Health Benefits Plan for the spring semester. In particular, those graduate student employees who are not signed up for credits (i.e. you are on continuing enrollment) will need to manually re-enroll for the SHBP this semester. Typically, … Continue reading Reminder to sign up for health insurance!
Period of Non-Responsibility Next Week (1/15/23 – 1/21/23)
Fellow workers, We are writing to you with an important announcement about the academic calendar for the spring semester. TLDR: For the week of 1/15/23-1/21/23 all graduate student employees have a period of non-responsibility, during which you will be paid but cannot be asked to do work. After that, your supervisor can ask you to … Continue reading Period of Non-Responsibility Next Week (1/15/23 – 1/21/23)
Call for nominations: interim membership organizer and GEO Bargaining Committee positions!
Fellow workers, We are writing to announce that nominations are now open for an interim GEO officer position and for positions on GEO’s Bargaining Committee! Please see below for the nomination call for all of these positions, including information about the positions and the nomination and election process. Any full member in good standing may … Continue reading Call for nominations: interim membership organizer and GEO Bargaining Committee positions!
Retro equivalent lump sum payments
Fellow workers, We hope that you are having a safe and relaxing holiday--and that you are taking your hard-earned time off! We write to remind you that your paychecks today should reflect the lump sums that correlate, imperfectly, to back pay from our recently-settled contract. You can calculate how much retro pay you should have … Continue reading Retro equivalent lump sum payments