Fellow GEO members, We are shocked and dismayed by the University’s decision to drop the campus-wide mask mandate, effective immediately. This change in policy was made abruptly: the announcement came less than 24 hours before its implementation. This time yesterday, all members of the campus community were required to wear a mask indoors, and it … Continue reading GEO statement on sudden lifting of mask mandate at UMass
GEO Interim Grievance Coordinator position open! Applications due by March 17!
Dear GEO members, This just in! We are proud to announce that David Pritchard, GEO’s Grievance Coordinator, has accepted a position as a Union Representative and Organizer with our UAW Local 2322. David will continue to work with and support GEO alongside Matthew Donlevy, our current UAW representative, but he will no longer be serving … Continue reading GEO Interim Grievance Coordinator position open! Applications due by March 17!
GEO bargaining update
GEO members, On Thursday, February 3, GEO's Bargaining Committee met once again with University representatives for contract negotiations. During this session we finally received management's written responses to our proposals. We didn't have high hopes for this—not after the university's chief negotiator Michael Eagen called us "privileged" and "outrageous" for trying to end hunger among … Continue reading GEO bargaining update
statement on the current COVID surge
Fellow GEO members, Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, GEO has maintained that graduate workers know better than anyone else what it means for a workplace—a lab, a classroom, a dorm—to be safe. Since we began impact bargaining with the University in March of 2020, our members have made it clear what kinds of things UMass would … Continue reading statement on the current COVID surge