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From the monthly archives: March 2014
In attendance: Thomas Morrill, Mindy Crandall, Béatrice Moissinac, Shannon Andrews, Sneha Gantla, Araby Belcher, Lizz Hardardt; web elf Rob Hess via speakerphone; guest member Sean McGregor; Ashley Bromley, Angela McClendon
Meeting called to order at 2:30 PM
Email Decisions – Decided to book the FREE third night at one of the Convention houses.
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In attendance: Mindy Crandall, Sneha Gantla, Béatrice Moissinac, Thomas Morrill, Araby Belcher, Shannon Andrews; guest members Ben Wishnek, Sean McGregor; Ashley Bromley, Angela McClendon; guest Debra Mayo-Kelley, new AFT-OR field rep
Meeting called to order at 2:35 PM
Minutes from 1-28 and 2-4-2014 Meetings – Approved
Online Tax Payment – Approved online […]
In attendance: Thomas Morrill, Shannon Andrews, Araby Belcher, Sneha Gantla, Béatrice Moissinac, Lizz Hardardt, Mindy Crandall; guest member Kevin Weitemier; Ashley Bromley, Angela McClendon
Meeting called to order at 2:30 PM
Email Decisions since previous meeting – (1) Approved purchase of 1” button system. (2) Scheduled winter meeting with Ed Ray for February […]
In attendance: Lizz Hardardt, Thomas Morrill, Sneha Gantla, Araby Belcher, Shannon Andrews, Béatrice Moissinac; Ashley Bromley, Angela McClendon
Meeting called to order at 2:30 PM (back in the office at last!)
Minutes from 1-14 and 1-21-2014 Meetings – Approved
Email Decisions – (1) Approved childcare subsidy for BT training. (2) Approved childcare […]
Prior to coming to the table on Thursday, CGE and OSU agreed to discuss the Ecampus tuition waiver for graduate employees (Letter of Agreement—Tuition Remission in the 2013 Collective Bargaining Agreement). The waiver has been provided to Grad Employees for the past two years through two separate yearlong contractual agreements referred to as pilot […]
The bargaining teams met on Thursday to discuss their interests and the articles to be opened. Each team is permitted to open up to four articles, with the possibility of additional articles being opened “by consultation” if both teams consent. At our previous meeting, the university team agreed to present first. They […]
Session 0: Ground Rules are Set!
We met on Thursday, March 6 with the University’s bargaining team to establish the ground rules that will govern table negotiations. We agreed to abide by the principles of Interest Based Bargaining (IBB), a process we’ve used in bargaining for the last few years. We mostly adopted the same […]
CGE has social events almost every week this Winter term, from social hours to family-friendly sports and gaming outings. Congratulate your CGE trivia masters from the department of Forestry, Trees get Degrees!
We have heard your comments regarding the use of the social list for community connections. Though we feel that this list is effective […]
At the end of last year, OSU defunded the Writing Center’s one-on-one writing assistance for grad students. However, after conversations between CGE and the administration the Graduate School recognized the value this service provides in student success and they renewed their support to the writing center. So long as CGE can promote those services and […]
by Lizz Hardardt, VP for Bargaining & Grievances
Even though we have not met OSU at the bargaining table yet, your Bargaining Team (BT) is already hard at work. Winter break was the perfect time to get started, we analyzed the survey results to see what issues are most important to our members. This round […]
