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From the monthly archives: June 2012
CGE Executive Council Meeting Minutes – June 7, 2012
In attendance: Wren Keturi, Forrest Parker, Braden Elliott, Sydney Householder, Danny Ritter, Michelle
Marie, Eric Coker, Matt Loewen, Bret Seferian, Angela McClendon, Michelle Zellers
Meeting called to order at 6:05 PM
Minutes from 5-31-2012 meeting – Approved
Email Decisions – Sent […]
CGE Executive Council Meeting Minutes – May 31, 2012
In attendance: {Current Officers}Sean McGregor, Mindy Crandall, Matt Loewen, Wren Keturi, Jack
Day, Ashley Bromley; {Incoming Officers} Forrest Parker, Braden Elliott, Danny Ritter, Michelle Marie,
Sydney Householder; Rob Hess, limeade; Bret Seferian and Angela McClendon
Meeting called to order at 6:10 PM
Our 10th bargaining session turned out to be a quite significant turning point. OSU’s team led the meeting off announcing that OSU’s administration agreed to CGE’s proposal to 50% employer contribution to dependent and partner health insurance, and agreed to 3% raises to the base minimum salary through 2014. With OSU’s previous commitment to cover […]
After a productive bargaining session on Wednesday, our Thursday session was less exciting. We began by recapping the current status on economic proposals; OSU was not able to bring back an immediate response from their administration. They did, however, demonstrate that they understand the outstanding items we are still pushing for: a 3% increase to […]
Fellow teachers and researchers,
On Tuesday, 10 more GRAs testified before a judge about the work they do for OSU, which ranges from advancing computer vision technology to sequencing genomes to plotting atmospheric data on the Indian Ocean. It was clear from our testimony that GRA work assignments are diverse. Some grads use part of […]
Today OSU and CGE’s bargaining teams met to exchange initial proposals on the key economic subjects of negotiations: fees, salary, and health insurance. We entered the session quite anxious to see what OSU would offer. At the previous session, their lead negotiator warned us that what they might bring could be “shocking and upsetting.”
While […]
CGE Executive Council Meeting Minutes – May 24, 2012
In attendance: {Current Officers}Ashley Bromley, Mindy Crandall, Wren Keturi, Lauren Atwell, Matt Loewen, Sean McGregor, Jack Day; {Incoming Officers} Braden Elliott, Sydney Householder, Danny Ritter, Michelle Marie, Eric Coker, Forrest Parker; Bret Seferian, Angela McClendon, Eben Pullman
Noted: Incoming officers were far more […]
Fellow teachers and researchers,
As you’ve probably heard, OSU has objected to graduate employees’ choice for union representation, claiming that the Graduate Assistants outside the current bargaining unit are not employees. Several CGE and AFT-Oregon representatives traveled to Salem last Thursday for the first day of the hearing. We wanted to update […]
CGE and the OSU administration will be meeting frequently to hopefully wrap up the contract before the year ends. We encourage everyone to come and observe the process – having a solid showing of interest really helps the bargaining team.
Wednesday June 6th, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm in MU 208
Thursday June 7th, […]
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