Thursday, October 5
Noon
Vandenberg Room
2nd Floor, Michigan League
Do you have questions about your benefits? Come to the GEO Membership Brown Bag to get answers about open enrollment, GradCare, the prescription drug plan, dental insurance, the vision plan, and more.
Bring your lunch! In a brown bag!
_____________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 steps.
How is bargaining going? Are they listening to us? Should we vote to extend? What comes next?
Fair Compensation For All! No Discrimination! High Quality Health Care For All! Equality For International and TLGB GSIs!
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 Community Center
1000 McIntyre Dr.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2494
Phone: (734) 764-9998
(North Campus)
For directions look at the maps of Northwood IV and North Campus on the Family Housing website.
From Central Campus, go to North Campus, pass Pierpont Commons and take a right on Hubbard, follow the Northwood IV map link on the Family Housing website below:
http://www.housing.umich.edu/family/mapnwood4.html
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 street from Border’s and right next to the Michigan Theater) to talk about International Student Issues in general, and to discuss the current crisis of the International Center. As everywhere else, the University is downsizing the International Center. The international Center provides crucial services for International students such as professional advise to get Visas. Given the new legislation and the new status of International Students as potential
“terrorist”, it doesn’t seem like a good idea to limit these services. So it is about time to face this problem as well as to discuss other potential concerns and issues that we want to be included in our next contract.
Please feel free to join us next Thursday, and pass the word around to anybody interested in participating in this discussion.
In Solidarity,
Luis Martin-Cabrera
loumarti-AT-umich-DOT-EDU-
P.S. If you have any further questions feel free to email me, And GOOOOOOOOO PISTONS
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 out what our proposals will look like.
The Lecturers’ fight is our fight:
Hear last-minute updates from LEO’s bargaining and prepare for how we can support them in their fight for a fair contract.
This semester, we switch from defense to offense, celebrating our win in defending our health care benefits and developing a bargaining platform to take into contract negotiations in the fall.
We need people from as many departments as possible to get together and talk about what we want to work for as we begin negotiating our next contract in the fall of 2004. What issues are international GSIs facing? What do we want to win on health care? How can we make things better for parents and low fractions?
7:00 p.m. Angel Hall – Auditorium C
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 meeting Sunday 4 p.m. at GEO office.
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!
Next meeting is Thursday, 29 May 2003, from 2:00-3:30pm at the GEO Office.
This is the third meeting of an ad hoc committee established to discuss issues of union democracy in GEO. Minutes will be posted soon but for now can be requested by e-mailing Irfan (irfann@umich.edu).
Agenda items for this meeting are:
1) Membership Meetings:
* Are our membership meetings democratic?
* Should we be bothered that some members feel railroaded into voting in a particular manner?
* If so, what should we do to change their perception?
2) GEO Structure
* Do we need a Steering Committee?