Impact Bargaining, Organizing Fellows, and CU Pride
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Organize with your Union! $20 per hour! Deadline TODAY
The Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) at UIUC is offering paid fellowships to GEO members to recruit new members and build the union’s power in advance of bargaining a full contract in Spring 2022. These are temporary hourly fellowships that are paid monthly, with an expected workload of ~5 hours a week for 12 weeks total (3 months). We anticipate that these positions will run from late September to mid-December; these flexible positions can be structured around current course load, work duties, and research. Training will be provided and paid.
Responsibilities will include:
Increasing membership in the union through tabling, office visits to fellow grad workers, one-on-one conversations, and hosting interdepartmental events.
Increasing general participation in the union.
Gather information about the needs of graduate employees, the issues they’re facing in their departments, and what they want in a new contract.
Help your union build the power we need to win a contract that provides all grad workers with livable wages, healthcare, and job security for all 12 months out of the year.
The GEO is an Affirmative Action employer. Women, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals are strongly encouraged to apply. Furthermore, the GEO is a social justice union that is committed to increase the participation of women, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals in all aspects of the union.
Applicants must be a current GEO member and a current U.S. citizen.
Applications are due by September 21st. Apply at https://tinyurl.com/GEOFellowsAppFA21.
Questions? Email geo@uigeo.org or cc@uigeo.org
Champaign County Bailout Coalition Needs Volunteers!
The Pretrial Fairness Act has passed, but CCBC still needs your help with:
-Bailing folks out of Champaign County Jail
-Communicating with detainees and their friends/family
-Tracking and providing reminders for court dates
-Fundraising
Visit champaigncountybailoutcoalition.wordpress.com to see how you can help. CCBC holds online meetings the second and fourth Thursday of every month at 5PM. Check our Facebook page for more info or email us at champaign.county.bail.out@gmail.com
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UC Books to Prisoners Fall Book Sale Volunteer Sign-Up
B2P is planning a benefit book sale to support their mission to provide books to incarcerated people and education about incarceration and prisons. GEO Solidarity Committee members will be volunteering as a group on Tuesday, October 12: 4:00-6:00p. If you’re interested in joining us or signing up for another volunteer date, sign up here!
EVENTS
COVID-19 Impact Bargaining Session16: Friday September 24th, 11 am - 12:30 pm CDT
This Friday the COVID-19 Impact Bargaining Team (IBT) will have its 16th bargaining session with the UIUC Administration. IBT members will be negotiating for a more comprehensive COVID-19 notification system, following up on the two Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) they sent about worker choice and sick leave, and more equipment for grad workers (technology, HEERF III funds, and PPE) with the university administration. Come show the administration our collective power! United we bargain! Divided we beg!
To register for this bargaining session fill out this registration form. Here is the Facebook event. Please invite your friends and colleagues to join! To join the conversation on twitter follow and tweet with the hashtag #ILLatIllinois!
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CU-Pride Parade “What the Health? Fighting, Surviving, Thriving” Sat. Sept. 25th
On Saturday September 25th at 3pm GEO will be marching in the Champaign Urbana Pride Parade put on by the local organization Uniting Pride!
Sign up to table at Pride here (shifts ranging from 11am-6 pm)
Sign up to join GEO in the Pride parade here. Meet the GEO contingent at the pre-parade staging area S. Gregory and Illinois. And line up for all vehicles and walking groups will be on South Gregory St., between Illinois and Oregon. This event is mask mandated. There will be a group chat formed for members who signed up so we can find each other before the parade starts. Parade entries that are walking are required to report to the staging area 15-30 minutes prior to the start of the parade - 2:30/2:45pm.
In Solidarity,
Graduate Employees’ Organization
809 S. 5th St., Geneva Room
Champaign, IL 61820
Email: geo@uigeo.org