Statements and press releases
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MEMBERSHIP MEETING Wed Feb 23rd 7 pm : strike vote?
Membership Meeting: WEDNESDAY, FEB 23, 7PM KRAUS NATURAL SCIENCES BLDG — AUDITORIUM NW corner of the Diag, with the “greenhouse”) Since we extended our contract…
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GEO MEMBERSHIP MEETING!!! OUR CONTRACT EXPIRES ON FEB.1!
_____________GEO MEMBERSHIP MEETING______________ MICHIGAN LEAGUE BALLROOM, 7PM, MONDAY, JAN 31, 2005!!! GEO’s current contract expires Feb. 1st! Meet on Jan 31 to decide the next…
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Dec 17 Rally Against Anti-Gay Prop2; It Goes Into Effect Today; Support International Student Demands to Administration
Protest Against Prop 2: Support Platform Language for Designated Beneficiaries FRIDAY, DEC. 17 IS THE LAST DAY OF BARGAINING FOR THE TERM. WHERE WILL YOU…
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NOV 12, GEO DAY, BARGAINING KICK-OFF RALLY
GEO CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS START NOV.12! All GEO members are invited to all events! Wear your GEO button all day long! FRIDAY, NOV. 12, 2004 9AM-12PM…
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Re-elect Olivia Maynard & Martin Taylor to UM Board of Regents
The GEO Stewards’ Council has voted to endorse Olivia Maynard and S. Martin Taylor, both Democrats, as candidates for the UM Board of Regents. In…
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GEO Membership Meetings: Vote on the Platform
North Campus: Wednesday, October 27, 7pm, Family Housing Community Center Central Campus: Thursday, October 28, 7pm, Michigan Union Ballroom ******************** GEO CONDITIONAL PLATFORM 2004 FAIR…
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Prop 2 Threatens Passage, Join GEO Fight to Protect Domestic Partner Benefits Provided in Contract
Below you will find: 1. The most recent article on Prop 2 heading toward passage. 2. Coalition for a Fair Michigan information and update. Here’s…
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TODAY’S NLRB ACTION!!!
The Specter hearings on the NLRB are going on right now! Please support our brothers and sisters in the private sector by taking one minute…
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New Planners Are In
Thanks to many hours of hard work by this summer’s planner committee, the 2004-05 30th anniversary GEO planner is printed and looks great! Stop by…
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New Faces at GEO
GEO has hired two new staff organizers, Ashley Karlin and Urmila Venkatesh, for our contract campaign this year. Urmila was a steward from the Art…
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First Steward’s Council Meeting Tonight
The GEO Stewards’ Council is open to all members and meets every other Tuesday evening from 7-8:30 in the GEO office at 527 E. Liberty.…
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Non-departmental GSI positions
From the contract (IX.A.2): “Departments that customarily emply non-departmental graduate students as instructors for course(s) will post these employment opportunities on a University-wide basis in…
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NLRB strikes down right of grad employees to organize
On July 16, the National Labor Relations Board issued a 3-2 decision reversing the legal precedent granting graduate student employees the right to form a…
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IGSI MEETING THIS THURS, TIME AND PLACE RESCHEDULED, 7:30pm
IGSI Meeting Rescheduled: The Brownbag has been moved to 7:30pm, still this Thursday, July 29. It will be held at the following location: Family Housing…
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Organizing
“Had a chance to do some actual organizing today for the first time in months. You forget how rewarding it is when you don’t do…
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Family Housing and the International Center: GEO INTERNATIONAL STUDENT BROWNBAG, JULY 29, THUR, 12 NOON
GEO International Student Brownbag, Thursday, July 29, 12 noon. at the GEO office: 527 East Liberty, Room 205. (down the street from the Michigan Theater).…
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LEO Contract Ratified
By a huge margin
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International Student Meeting, Thurs, 4pm, June 24th
Dear All, Next Thursday June 24 at 4.00 p.m we will be holding a meeting at the GEO offices (527 E. Liberty #205. across the…
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Officer Elections, part II
At Stewards’ on Tuesday, Afia Ofori-Mensa (American Culture) was elected Treasurer and Dan Rose (Sociology) was elected Secretary. In September, we’ll elect Chairs of Organizing,…
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Officer Elections in Stewards
On Tuesday, April 20, David Dobbie (Social Work and Sociology) was relected as President of GEO. Bella Muntz (Anthropology) was elected as vice president. A…
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Happy Birthday GEO!
30 years ago today, April 15, 1974, on another glorious Ann Arbor spring day, graduate employees at the University of Michigan voted overwhelmingly to form…
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Come to the Membership Meeting!
Wednesday, April 7 7 PM Rackham Auditorium (4th floor)
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GEO Membership Meeting Wednesday
All-Campus Membership Meeting Wednesday, April 7, 7 PM Rackham Auditorium Platform Development: Get results from surveys, talk about what our priorities should be, and flesh…
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Colleges Fear IRS Plan Could Make More Students Liable for Social Security Taxes
Tax officials at many colleges fear that a rule change proposed by the Internal Revenue Service could cost colleges millions of dollars by making nearly…