As many of you are already know, CGE and OSU have signed a new Collective Bargaining Agreement and its benefits are already being implemented before the contract’s actual ratification. While there have been some issues with the timing of the implementation of the benefits, such as fees being remitted only after the end of the [...]

Even though we are close to an agreement, several important matters remain unresolved in bargaining. We have scheduled three sessions in July in hopes to come to a tentative agreement on the whole contract that we can send to the membership to vote on for ratification.

July 5 2-5 pm.

July 9 10am-5pm.

July 10 [...]

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 [...]

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 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, [...]