At Stewards’ Assembly last night, feedback received included a feeling that some rank and file members are out of the loop on why various actions are happening, and the motivations for the fighting stance taken by GEO leadership towards the university administration. Let’s talk about that more tonight! We welcome your participation in the membership meeting tonight and hope you encourage your co-workers and friends to come as well. If you know anyone who is not receiving GEO emails, but wants to be in the loop, the website geouaw.org has all the content that goes out in emails, and more. Meanwhile, your GEO leadership are working on a plan for more transparency.
Membership meeting agenda (tonight at 6pm)
- Must pre-register for Zoom link here; password if required = GEOmembers
- Debrief about coalition demands, deadline for Chancellor Subbaswamy
- Open forum about how and why these demands came about (surveys, international students and other precarious groups)
- Action plan:
- Phase two of drive-in protest: sending mock “eviction notices“
- The buck doesn’t stop at the Chancellor: calling state-level legislators – volunteers needed!
- Brainstorm about possible next steps to win our demands
- Inspirations from College of Ed: Reverse Town Halls
- Stewards made a plan to record whether people have their Fall offers
- Discussing vacation time provided in our contract
- Releasing STEM impact survey – volunteers needed!
- Plan for Friday’s Impact Bargaining: we reject management’s “offer” [can read full arguments in the response from our side here]
- Volunteers needed! Calling on members in Ed, Public Health, or related, to help another shop in our Local 2322: Providence Behavioral Health Hospital
NEXT IMPACT BARGAINING SESSION…
…is tomorrow, Friday April 24th, 3pm-5pm [link here] See you there! Management has gotten used to seeing 70-strong GEO members in attendance, let’s not disappoint them this time.
In solidarity,
GEO leadership
