• About CGE

    The Coalition of Graduate Employees (CGE) is the collective voice of the graduate student employees of Oregon State University. CGE is a labor union with the exclusive right to negotiate with OSU on behalf of its Graduate Research and Teaching Assistants. The contracts CGE earns through collective bargaining determine the salary, working conditions, health coverage, and other rights and benefits of employment for the individuals they represent.

    In addition to negotiating our contract, CGE represents OSU's grad assistants in other ways. They have regular discussions with OSU to ensure that we are treated fairly and to ensure that our working conditions are satisfactory, and they have the power to fight to correct unacceptable treatment and conditions.

    As a union, CGE's voice is stronger than the sum of those of the individuals it represents, but its voice becomes even stronger as its membership increases. High membership shows OSU that we grad assistants do care about the way we are treated as employees, and it helps us earn contracts that fairly compensate us for our hard work. So, solitary grad employees of OSU, unite with us, and ensure that your voice is heard. CGE: our union, our voice.



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Bargaining starts in 39 minutes! Let’s see what the university thinks about the future of graduate employees!

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CGE has continued its proud progress into the 21st century by getting our own Twitter feed: @CGE6069. We’re planning to be active twittering during bargaining sessions, so if you can’t make it to a session, you can at least follow our feed to keep up with what’s going on.

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Our first real bargaining session for the 2010 reopener is coming up on Friday, February 12. It’ll be from 2-5:00 in the large meeting room in the Westminster House (not the MU; note the location change).

At this session, we’ll be letting the OSU administration know which articles we plan to open this year, and they will then do the same. Afterwords, we’ll begin to lay out the context of bargaining as we see it this year, which is the basis upon which we’ll make and fight for our proposals.

This will be an interesting session, and afterwards we hope to have an idea what OSU is thinking. We could definitely use your support, so come out for all or part of the session if you can make it. You can even bring homework to do or papers to grade.

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CGE and OSU have scheduled three bargaining sessions for the remainder of this term:

  • 2-5 PM, Friday, February 12th, 2010, in Westminster House
  • 3-5 PM, Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010, in MU Council Room
  • 2-4 PM, Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010, in Westminster House

Westminster House is the building that houses the CGE office.  Directions can be found here.

All graduate employees are encouraged to observe bargaining sessions.  More information is forthcoming, but as of right now, the first session is the one you’re going to want to be at.

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Our Winter General Membership Meeting will be held at the Chintimini Senior Center on Friday, January 29th. The fun begins at 5:30 PM. We will provide pizza and beer.

Agenda Items:

Bargaining Update
AFT-OR Convention Delegate Elections
Vacant Officer Position Elections
Consequences of Measures 66 & 67 Outcome
New AFT Member Cards
Budget and Membership Status Update

Here is a map:

cge-winter-2010-gmm-directions-and-maps

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