Join Our Standing Committees Start-up Meeting

Your local union is looking for volunteers to join our standing committees. We will be hosting a start-up meeting encompassing all the committees listed below. We’ll discuss how they will work together then break off into groups to begin planning individual committee needs. Check the descriptions below to identify your area of interest: Education/Solidarity Conservation and Recreation Community Services Civil and Human Rights Citizenship and … Continue reading

GEO-UAW 2322 | Press Release 8-15-2011

University’s Defense of Changes to Student Health Insurance Based on False Claims and Manufactured Deficit Amherst, MA  – Information recently received by the UMass Graduate Employee Organization (GEO), a unit of UAW Local 2322, demonstrates that the University of Massachusetts Amherst has based its defense of massive changes to the Student Health Insurance plan on false claims and manufactured deficits. On August 1, 2011, the … Continue reading

Rallies to Save UMass Student Health Coverage, July 15

Co-Insurance is NO Insurance!!! The UMass Administration has gutted student health insurance coverage for all undergraduate and graduate students.  Beginning on August 1st, the UMass Administration is changing compulsory student health insurance from 100% coverage for most medical procedures to 85% coverage.  This new plan will push more costs onto women, students with chronic health conditions, students with families, international students and low-income students.  Women … Continue reading