UMGEO.org Official site of the Graduate Employee's Organization

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Graduate Employees Organization

GEO is an activist, democratic and volunteer-run organization where graduate employees come together to improve the wages and working conditions for themselves and for those to follow. In doing so, they impact the college community and shape the university and its departments in positive ways. GEO negotiates and defends the GSI/GSSA contract. The collective action of the members, organized as a union, is responsible for many of the concrete benefits the employees now enjoy. Over the last 25 years, victories have included tuition waivers, health benefits, and child care support as well as a powerful grievance procedure to protect our rights, transparent hiring processes, and non-discrimination language. Graduate employees across the country look to GEO as an example of what can be accomplished when we work together.

So what is a union? The union is what its members want it to be. According to the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a union is an organization of employees at a workplace who act collectively to improve working conditions by stopping the employer from doing as s/he pleases through contract enforcement. Like any union, we at GEO act collectively to exercise control over the conditions of our lives and to protect graduate employees from unfair or arbitrary treatment. We work towards our dreams.

GEO is Local 3550 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)/ American Federation of Teachers Michigan (MFT&SRP), American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). We are also affiliated with AGEL (grad employees within the AFT) and CGEU (all grad employees)