From the Michigan Daily
By Jeremy Berkowitz
November 26, 2003
In a bittersweet, emotional moment for graduate students instructors, the Graduate Employees Organization overwhelmingly voted last night to settle an issue with the University over health care premiums. Under the deal, about 90 percent of GSIs will now pay the same rates they paid before.
Due to a twofold […]

On Thursday, 11/20, 200 GEO members gathered in the Chemistry building to assess the University’s response to our demands.
David Dobbie and Holly Burmeister presided over the meeting. At the beginning of the meeting, the two described the grievance hearing of earlier that morning as “unusual.” A typical hearing consists of each side stating its position, […]

The locations for three major events are now known.
Negotiations pertaining to benefits will be held MONDAY MORNING AT 10AM in the LSA DEAN’S CONFERENCE ROOM, 6TH FLOOR OF HAVEN HALL.
Our Membership Meeting to discuss negotiations will be TUESDAY EVENING AT 7PM in the VANDENBERG ROOM OF THE MICHIGAN LEAGUE on N. University.
Bargaining prep & strategy […]

Today, the Regents of the University met after a rally of nearly 200 supporters of the All Campus Labor Council and GEO. During the public comments period, eight of ten speakers spoke to the impact of health care changes on employees of the university. Here are some excerpts:
Five members of the all-campus labor council spoke […]

Dear President Coleman
I write to you today as a graduate student in history, a GSI in history,
and a member of GEO to request that you revisit the misguided
co-premium policies the Committee on Health Insurance Premium Design
(CHIPD) and Provost Courant are attempting to impose on GEO members. I am
concerned with the process by which this […]

AN OPEN LETTER TO DEAN EARL LEWIS
Dear Dean Lewis,
I was appalled to see you cross the Borders picket line on Friday evening. Like many other graduate students at the University, I regarded you as one of more progressive voices in the upper echelons of the administration. I know you to be a well-respected historian […]

I have three main points. First, the University’s proposed health care changes violate the GEO contract and state labor law. Second, the University can afford to keep health care free. Finally, we all know there is a crisis in health care provision in this country; however, the University’s proposed plans are short-sighted cost-shifting measures.
The […]

Come out to ‘THE CUBE’ behind the Michigan Union and Fleming Administration Building on Nov. 20th at 12:30PM to urge the regents not to allow the erosion of employee health care. The regents meet at 1:00PM and will be greeted by a united campus of employees. ALL EMPLOYEES of the University, unionized and non-unionized, should […]

RSG recently sent out an email with a letter receieved from the Provost included. We at GEO believe the figures quoted in that letter are at best unlikely, and at worst intentionally misleading. Here’s our analysis (the letter from RSG is at that bottom).
Hello DeAunderia and RSG,
I want to point out that Provost Courant’s […]

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