Next Thursday, FEB 13, there will be a GEO Membership Meeting, 7-8 PM in the Michigan Union Anderson Room. More details to come at this Friday’s grad student meeting, but one of the main issues concerns the current bargaining campaign for Residence Hall Librarians (RHLs).
There are 12 hall librarians at the University, one for each campus residence hall. The librarians are School of Information grad students; they work approximately 30 hours/wk and are required to live in the dorms. They are paid ,500/yr, receive no benefits, no tuition waiver (compared to ,762 for 0.75 FTE under GEO contract). To improve their working conditions, the RHLs have elected to join GEO, and have been in negotiations with the University since January. As usual, the proceedings have been difficult, and they need our support.
As the 2002 GEO contract campaign amply demonstrated, there’s strength in numbers–please support your fellow workers.
Bargaining sessions are in West Quad Hall, the Ostifin Room, on the 2nd Floor next to the Hall Library. If you enter on Thompson Street, you go to your right upstairs, and the room is in the middle of the hall on your left. SOMEONE WILL BE AT THE DOORWAY TO LET YOU IN.
If you have further questions about supporting, please contact GEO Staff Organizer Glen Bessemer
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