University of Minnesota students in occupation via No Sweat

Calling All Workers & Students:
What do tuition increases, health care cutbacks, and no job security have in common?
Campus Equity Week
RALLY FOR FAIR TREATMENT of U of M EMPLOYEES
Fight for Lecturers’ Job Security
Fight against Proposed health Care Cutbacks
Fight Undergrad tuition Hikes
Diag — Noon
Wednesday, Oct. 29th
Sponsored by the Lecturers Employee Organization (LEO) […]

The University’s committee on Health Ins. Premium Design (CHIPD) released their report and recommendations. Details about the report are available at: umich.edu/~hraa/chipd/index.htm
The website contains an executive summary, the text of the report, and a question and answer section.
Note: Some initial impressions from the committee’s report (note, these are just a first glance - i […]

The GEO parents committee will be meeting this Tuesday at noon in the GEO office. COSPI will be the main agenda item. We’ll also be discussing health care and how GEO can best serve families.
We had incredible success last week with our mass membership meetings. Let’s build on this and get COSPI rocking!

Calling all workers & students:
What do tuition increases, health care cutbacks, and no job security have in common?
Come rally for the fair treatment of U of M employees on the Diag, Wed. 10/29 at 12 PM. A fun surprise ending is promised!

Because of Coors’ long and continuing tradition of funding racist, anti-worker, anti-immigrant, anti-women, and anti-queer initiatives, the GEO Stewards’ Council urges GEO members and supporters to boycott Coors beer and their other brands (Killian’s, Zima, Keystone, Blue Moon, and Extra Gold).

• illegally subcontracting the cleaning and maintenance work at its downtown Ann Arbor facility to an outside firm without prior notice or bargaining with the union (UFCW Local 876);
• unlawfully insisting that the union agree to the elimination of the cleaning crew from the store as a condition in reaching a collective bargaining agreement;
• […]

Okemos, MI - US District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that Registered Nurses at Bixby Medical Center in Adrian and Herrick Memorial Hospital in Tecumseh, both part of the Lenawee Health Alliance, cannot have their health
care expenses increased without opening negotiations on the topic.
Judge Taylor upheld an arbitrator’s award in a case involving […]

New York Times October 5, 2003
By SANA SIWOLOP
IT’S open enrollment season again for many of the 175 million or so American workers and retirees in employer-sponsored health insurance plans. Over the next few weeks, the participants will have a chance to revise their coverage for next year.
As rising health care costs continue to make […]

The Graduate Employees Organization, AFT/MFT&SRP Local 3550, supports AFSCME 3800 in their efforts to get a fair contract for University of Minnesota clerical workers.
While the University is certainly faced with a budget crisis, it is fundamentally unfair to place a disproportionate share of the burden on the shoulders of the clerical workers, who, despite the […]

How are we going to fight to protect our contract?
Over the past year, the University has launched three illegal and immoral attacks on the contract we fought so hard to win:
First, they illegally cut our prescription drug benefits and outsourced them to Advance PCS.
Second, they retaliated against the Residence Hall Librarians who joined our Union […]

The UM reported a $22.5 million profit in its health services division for 2003 to the Regents. Read the University Record article by UMHS PR person, Kara Gavin: http://www.umich.edu/~urecord/0203/July21_03/09.shtml

I just talked to Benefits about the summer premiums. Yes, we are going to be charged for them. Here is the worst of it. They will be deducted from the last pay check for the winter term in one lump
sum.
I do not know if this is true for those with summer GSI appointments. I […]