Dear Faculty, Students, and Staff, Many of you have been expressing your support for our graduate and teaching assistants during the GEO strike. We share your concern about their important role. Furthermore, we…
Dear Campus Community, On Thursday and Friday, the University and GEO met for negotiations with a federal mediator. On Thursday, the two teams arrived on time, were located in separate bargaining rooms, and…
Dear Campus Community, The UIC Graduate Employees Organization, the union representing 1,600 graduate employees in collective bargaining negotiations, has declared an indefinite work stoppage beginning Tuesday, March 19. The bargaining teams are scheduled…
Dear Deans, We are anticipating there will be a GEO strike tomorrow, though bargaining continues throughout today. I ask you to look carefully at this website, geobargaining.uic.edu, which has a lot of information and…
Dear Graduate Employee, During this period of negotiations with the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), it is important to state that we highly value the services which Teaching Assistants and Graduate Assistants provide for…
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students, We write to give you an update on important developments in our contract negotiations with the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO). Possible March 19, 2019, Strike GEO issued a…
Dear Campus Community, I write today to update you on the status of the ongoing Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) contract negotiations. We recognize and appreciate the importance of graduate assistants to the research…