After a marathon thirteen hour mediation session with the university's bargaining team yesterday, the GEO bargaining team emerged with an agreement that will protect tuition waivers, increase job security, and made important gains on minimum stipends and the university contribution to health insurance. Read more »
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You may have seen the email this morning from John Loya, Vice Chancellor for Human Resources and R. Michael Tanner, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, regarding contract negotiations between the GEO and the UIC administration. We are writing to clarify some of their points. Read more »
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Please use the link below to email Provost Tanner, Chancellor Allen-Meares, and the Board of Trustees to demand that GEO members get a fair contract today.
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 On Thursday November 12 at 11:30, more than 75 UIC GEO and SEIU Local 73 members rallied on the Quad to demand that UIC bargain with GEO about economic issues, such as ending all unfair fees and differentials, a fair wage increase for all graduate workers, and improvements to CampusCare. GEO and SEIU members also rallied in support of UIUC GEO's rally in Springfield earlier in the morning, and in solidarity with UIUC GEO's strike vote on November 4-6.
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GRADUATE EMPLOYEES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO RALLY IN SUPPORT OF UIUC GRADUATE EMPLOYEE STRIKE VOTE
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 At 8:00 AM on the morning of September 26, twenty GEO members demanded that UIC Chancellor Paula Allen-Meares cut through the red tape to make sure all graduate employees are paid on time. More than 90 grads contacted GEO Secretary Mandy Faretta about not being paid on time. Here Mandy is holding the grievance, which she later hand-delivered to the Chancellor.
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 On Friday, October 23, GEO and SEIU local 73 members picketed outside University Hall during a labor-managment meeting called by UIC. More than 20 GEO members answered the RSVP for the meeting, but just three hours before the meeting, UIC denied us access, citing concerns that the very same workers who the university trusts to teach the bulk of its classes would "act up" during the meeting.
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