Coalition of Graduate Employees

Come out and observe CGE’s next bargaining session this Thursday (6/19/08) from 9 to Noon in MU 212. See you there!

Join us for the next bargaining session, Friday, June 13th from 1-5 PM in the large upstairs meeting room of Westminster House.

Join us for the next bargaining session, Wednesday, June 4th from 9-11 AM in MU 206.

Join us for the next bargaining session, Wednesday, May 28th from 9-11 AM in the large upstairs meeting room of Westminster House.

Come to bargaining! Your support is important and it shows the Administration we’re ALL interested in this contract. Come for any amount of time, bring work to do while you’re here, or just observe. Hope to see you!!

Come to bargaining! Your support is important and it shows the Administration we’re ALL interested in this contract. Come for any amount of time, bring work to do while you’re here, or just observe. Hope to see you!!

Join your fellow CGE-ers in room 1007 of Kelley Engineering Center for food, fun, and a little union business at 5:00 on Thursday, April 24th for the Spring 2008 General Membership Meeting. Among other things, we’ll be discussing recent developments at the bargaining table and electing a slate of officers for the 2008-2009 academic year. We’ll also have a bunch of free pizza, soda, and other munchies, so come hungry.

If you are interested becoming a CGE officer, contact the CGE office (757-7141 -or- office@cge6069.org) for more details.

See you there!

It’s been a while since we’ve posted here.  But that doesn’t mean the wheels of bargaining have not been turning.  We had two sessions in the last couple of weeks.

The first was extremely frustrating.  We left feeling like the Administration’s team really had no plans to actually negotiate with us and were instead simply entertaining us with their presence.  They started that session by immediately caucusing for nearly half an hour (or about a quarter of the allotted bargaining time), and when they came back they stonewalled us at every turn, refusing even to agree to try to move some of the less contentious stuff off the table in the first few sessions to try to build some harmony between the teams on our way up to the bigger stuff.

The second session seemed to go better.  We presented a few proposals we figured would be very non-contentious (like the articles on Discipline and Discharge, the Grievance Procedure, and Consultation [17-19]) and the Administration engaged us in a bit of back-and-forth about each one.  We’re hoping that they will come back to the next session (which is TODAY at 1:00 in MU 206) with some counter-proposals on these articles, so we can discuss them and move them off the table.

We’re also going to try to address the Articles on Appointments and Work Assignments (9 & 10) today.  There have been numerous issues with Grad Employees not having the time to prepare for assistantships due to their not being appointed or assigned their duties a timely fashion, and we are trying to work some remedies to this situation into the new contract.

So, some to the bargaining session today.  Your support really is important to us, and it shows the Adminstration that we’re all interested in this contract.  The session will last from 1-4:00, but you can come for any amount of time, and you can bring work to do while you’re there.  Your simple presence is what’s important.

The fourth round of contract negotiations between the CGE Bargaining Team and the OSU Administration will be held TODAY, Monday, April 7, from 1-4:00 pm in MU 206. At this meeting, we’ll be beginning the long road of negotiations trying to build accord by talking about some uncontroversial, non-economic issues.

As always, we need your support. Stop by for as long as you’d like today to observe part of the session.

Contact the CGE Office to volunteer:

757-7141 -or- fairshare@cge6069.org

Hope you can join us!