This event will feature a look back at GEO’s past struggles and how these challenges will prepare us for contract negotiations in 2012. This campaign kickoff will include former members that were active in the three-day student strike in 1991 that led to the recognition of a graduate employee union on the UMass campus. Current GEO leaders and activists will speak about recent struggles including … Continue reading
Wednesday is the National Day of Action to support public workers under attack nationwide. Graduate students in WI, and other public workers have called on us for help. Other unions and student groups on campus have also called on us for help this day. This is a critical moment for GEO to step up, in our own interest and the interest of workers like us. … Continue reading
In this still-struggling economy, our country needs one thing: more good jobs. But instead of focusing on finding ways to create good jobs, politicians have turned their attention to political payback to the corporate CEOs who spent more than $1 billion on the November elections. In states across the country, workers are fighting back against corporate-backed lawmakers who are trying to use state budget problems … Continue reading
From the United Auto Workers International Union website: DETROIT – The massive protests by Wisconsin’s public sector workers clearly show that Gov. Scott Walker’s extreme attempt to strip away union rights so he can fill state posts with political cronies is bad governance, UAW President Bob King said. “Governor Walker’s attempt to take away a worker’s most basic democratic right – the right to join … Continue reading
GEO Members, While Wisconsin may seem far away geographically, the outcome of this current conflict has serious consequences for GEO, particularly in upcoming negotiations and legislative battles. TA’s are in danger of losing their union as Governor Walker wants to strip public sector unions of basic protections and functions that unions have had since the 1930’s. “Unions today are strongest in the public sector; a … Continue reading