GEO members flyer outside MA healthcare cost containment hearing in Pittsfield, MA

As part of GEO’s response to attacks on our health insurance by the UMass Amherst administration, we joined coalition partners at a hearing of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing at City Hall in Pittsfield, MA. GEO members Derek Doughty (Anthropology), Sarah Finn (Writing Program), Jocelyn Silverlight (Social Justice Education), Thomas Herndon (Economics), and Roberto Garcia-Ceballos (Social Justice Education) joined UAW 2322 President Ron … Continue reading

Coalition Letter on Health Insurance sent June 23, 2011

Mass-Care, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, UMass Student Labor Action Project (SLAP), The Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts (PHENOM), and UAW Local 2322 have signed onto a letter to the Massachusetts Commissioner of Higher Education, the Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, and the Chair of the UMass Board of Trustees, calling on them to address the devastating changes to the Student Health … Continue reading

New information on health insurance changes

After receiving the University’s Letter to Graduate Student Employees on May 27, 2011, many of us had questions about what the proposed changes to the Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP) would mean for graduate employees.  We have recently come into possession of an additional memo from Donna Yezierski to UHS “Providers, Clinic Staff, PT, Specialty Clinic, Patient Services” which outlines the changes in greater detail … Continue reading

Contact University Health Services about changes to our insurance

Email UHS with your concerns about their proposed insurance plan!  Just fill out the form below and click “Send”.  Feel free to replace our text with your own message and concerns about the new plan announced on May 27, 2011. We have taken down our submission form. Here is the letter that over 400 GEO members sent: The changes to the Student Health Insurance Plan … Continue reading

Contraceptive Prices Should Not Have Risen! Call UHS Today

GEO-UAW is currently filing a grievance over the unfair contraceptive prices, a slow, but hopefully effective process. Our contract says the prices for birth control will never be over $10, so the administration is using a 2005 law to try to charge more. That law has since been overturned, but the prices at the UHS pharmacy still haven’t been capped since August 1st! Call Bernie … Continue reading