Posts tagged Graduate Employee Organization
‘Poverty wages have to go’: Some 200 rally at UMass flagship, calling for fair pay and full staffing
December 6, 2024 // Chong and McCullough were among about 200 union members, including AFSCME 1776, and workers from the Professional Staff Union, the Massachusetts Society of Professors, the University Staff Association and the Graduate Employee Organization, who joined together demanding more pay and more respect as negotiations get underway or continue for new contracts for staff and faculty.
U-M graduate student workers on strike, seeking better pay and benefits
March 30, 2023 // In addition to higher wages, the union's demands include "an affordable and accessible childcare subsidy, access to gender affirming care, an emergency fund for international students and transitional funding for survivors of sexual harassment," said GEO Contract Committee Chair Amir Fleischmann. "A strike violates GEO’s own agreement with the university," according to the release. "The current contract includes language specifying that the union agrees not to strike while the contract is in effect."