The Administration’s First Priority: Gag GEO & Impose a Media Blackout.
Our Response: We Want Ground Rules Not Gag Rules!

GEO’s bargaining committee sat down with representatives of the administration on Friday, January 19th in the hopes of reaching some basic ground rules for the contract negotiations GEO will be engaging in with the UMass administration this spring.

In this first meeting GEO’s main goal was to get the university to commit to meeting for negotiations a minimum of 8 hours per month, and to agree to longer meetings where GEO’s contract proposals could be discussed in-depth and at length.

At Friday’s meeting it quickly became clear what the Administration’s top priority was: to get GEO’s bargaining committee to agree to a total media blackout on all issues related to the contract negotiations: No press releases. No conversations with reporters. No news articles. The administration wants GEO’s bargaining committee to accept a completely unnecessary and unreasonable gag rule as a central ground rule of these contract negotiations.

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Hey everyone,

This is your political advocate, stephen, writing in today. So we have sent out postcards to Deval Patrick and Tim Murray for the holidays. For those that have not filled out a postcard we have them at our office or ask your steward to grab a bunch to distribute. If you filled one out, great! let us know what you think of the letter? What other political actions do you think would help with bargaining and funding UMASS?

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