• 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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CGE Fall term GMM will be at the Corvallis Parks & Recreation Chintimini Senior Center (2601 NW Tyler Ave)

Come hang out with your fellow workers – there will be food and beer and lots of exciting things to talk about!
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There are approximately 300 graduate employees who have not signed up for health insurance yet.   If you are one of them, get over to the Student Health Center today or you will end up paying much more than 15% of the cost for your health insurance.

 

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CGE will be hosting the bi-annual Alliance of Graduate Employee Locals conference this October.  Graduate employee activists from school all over the nation will be in Corvallis October 27-29.

This is a great opportunity for CGE to learn about the broader graduate union movement.  There will be panels on graduate issues and social events including a barn party and the return of the Civil War Brew-off.  We encourage everyone to come for as much of the conference as they can.  You can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDl6WkZ0ejRDUmRzVm9jTXZpYVBFZ2c6MQ

Also since we are hosting other underpaid graduate students, we are looking for a few volunteers to offer up their couches (or air mattresses, extra beds, etc.) for our guests to crash.  If you are interested in providing space, please let us know here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dHdZN2hVaG45MlRaYzFueVh5ZDB4WVE6MQ#gid=0

–CGE

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The Fall Term CGE department representative meeting will be this Wednesday, Oct 5, at Woodstook’s Pizza [1045 Northwest Kings Boulevard].  All CGE members are welcome!

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It took some HTML wrangling, but we’ve posted an HTML version of the CGE contract on the Contracts page.  It’s much easier to navigate online, though there’s something nice about having the PDF on your computer as well.

The Contracts page also contains all of CGE’s old contracts.

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