Coalition of Graduate Employees AFT 6069

CGE is bargaining with OSU beginning October, 2019!

In preparation for bargaining CGE will be holding multiple trainings and workshops for members interested in joining our bargaining team.

Join us for this introduction to bargaining where we will discuss the basics (timeline for bargaining, past victories, team roles, member engagement).

If you are interested in bargaining but unsure where to start, then this session is for you!

A special meeting to discuss a proposed amendment to the CGE Constitution will be held on April 2 from 5:00-6:00pm at Westminster House (101 NW 23rd St.) All members are eligible to vote, if you are not a member you can join CGE by signing up here. Voting will be conducted through online ballot beginning April 2 at 6pm and ending April 9 at 12:00pm.

The summary of changes should the amendment be approved are as follows:
The role of Vice President for Bargaining would be created to our union’s Executive Council.
The role of External Relations Chair would be eliminated from our union’s Executive Council.
The duties of External Relations Chair would be taken over by our union’s President.
The current bargaining responsibilities of our union President would be taken over by the VP for Bargaining.

The full text of the amendment can be found here (proposed changes are in red). All members will be eligible to vote on the amendment. Amendments to the amendment can be made at the special meeting on April 4 should a quorum (consisting of 30 members in good standing) be met and percentage of voters (75%) approve such a proposal.

Meeting to discuss:
What topics does the retirement committee want to focus on?
What should be our next event/forum/effort?
How do we want to communicate?
Do we need a leadership structure? If so, what structure?

This workshop focuses on how to effectively organize your department, increase membership and involvement, and develop a strategy for building union power with your colleagues. Department-based organizing is THE KEY to having a strong, effective, democratic union. Useful to anyone who wants to help strengthen our union.

This workshop focuses on how to effectively organize your department, increase membership and involvement, and develop a strategy for building union power with your colleagues. Department-based organizing is THE KEY to having a strong, effective, democratic union. Useful to anyone who wants to help strengthen our union.

Come join your fellow unionists for drinks & games on Thirsty Thursday!

This workshop focuses on how to effectively organize your department, increase membership and involvement, and develop a strategy for building union power with your colleagues. Department-based organizing is THE KEY to having a strong, effective, democratic union. Useful to anyone who wants to help strengthen our union.

Discussion of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice pages 7-68.

Discussion of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice pages 69-120.

CGE is bargaining with OSU beginning October, 2019!

In preparation for bargaining CGE will be holding multiple trainings and workshops for members interested in joining our bargaining team.

Join us for this introduction to bargaining where we will discuss the basics (timeline for bargaining, past victories, team roles, member engagement).

If you are interested in bargaining but unsure where to start, then this session is for you!

Readings on Class from Keywords for Radicals available at: http://tinyurl.com/yxtmjro8

Our Steward Council meetings are open to all members. These meetings are where important union decisions are made, and we govern these sessions through consensus decision-making.

We'll probably be up in the Student Lounge, the large room on the main floor almost straight inside as you walk in the front door.

Google drive notes for the Pride Caucus meetings: please hit the "request edit access" link under the "view access only" menu if you have any comments you'd like to make and you don't already have access to the document.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IvelilaHrpCtmpYdxaeEcf2Q8HquZafhaeTvRsvC9CM/edit?usp=sharing

To clarify structure of meetings vs working groups: The meeting today is for the Pride Caucus as whole, where we brainstorm projects to work on and discuss issue that the group finds important. There are also two working groups--the Bathroom Access Working Group and the oSTEM (out in STEM) Working Group--that are meeting in between the Pride Caucus meetings to work on specific tasks. The progress from the working groups will also be discussed in the Pride Caucus meeting and the meeting notes for the working groups are also in the Pride Caucus meeting notes from above.
Unfortunately, there were no times that worked for everyone, so there will definitely be people missing at this meeting. Between seeing each other in other groups and the meeting notes, hopefully we all will be able to keep updated.

CGE is proud to be a sponsoring organization (and core organizing team) for the second Opening Space for the Radical Imagination.

Keynote speakers include adrienne maree brown (books include Pleasure Activism; Emergent Strategy; Octavia's Brood) and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (books include Care Work; Bodymap: Poems; Dirty River).

You can find more information at oregonimagines.com

CGE is proud to be a sponsoring organization (and core organizing team) for the second Opening Space for the Radical Imagination.

Keynote speakers include adrienne maree brown (books include Pleasure Activism; Emergent Strategy; Octavia's Brood) and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (books include Care Work; Bodymap: Poems; Dirty River).

You can find more information at oregonimagines.com

Continuing our reading of Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. (pp. 120-162).

For access to the reading please email disabilityjustice@cge6069.org

Waldo Hall 268.