GEO Negotiation Bulletin #8: HR’s Limited Vocabulary: No. January 27, 2023

GEO Negotiation Bulletin #8: HR’s Limited Vocabulary: No. January 27, 2023

HR suggested that allowing victims of abuse to escape without reporting would keep the University from addressing harassment and discrimination. HR then proceeded to flatly reject a broad slate of common-sense proposals intended to support graduate parents, international workers, and Masters students. Help respond by participating in the Week of Grad Labor Visibility from February 6 to 10 (bit.ly/GEOGradWeek).

GEO Negotiation Bulletin #7, HR sends over first counter-proposal eight weeks into bargaining, January 20, 2023

GEO Negotiation Bulletin #7, HR sends over first counter-proposal eight weeks into bargaining, January 20, 2023

HR finally gave us counterproposals on Friday, which can be summarized in a word: “No.” For some crucial proposals — paying MSW students for their labor, funding an unarmed, non-police crisis response program, and protecting workers from ICE — HR went further, suggesting our proposals were permissive and potentially illegal, and telling us to drop them entirely.