Affiliations
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GEO is affiliated with several labor organizations on the local, state, and national level. We are especially committed to the promotion of new and continuing organizing efforts to graduate employees at other universities and colleges. To learn more about our affiliations, please click on the following links:
- United Steelworkers
- PU/IU GEO Alliance
- Purdue Proggresive Organization Alliances
- Other Affiliated Labor Organizations
- Unionized Big Ten Institutions
- Other Unionized Universities
United Steelworkers
As of March of 2008, Purdue's GEO has formed a strategic alliance with the United Steelworkers through their Assoicate Member Program.
Learn more about the Associate Member Program here.
Purdue University / Indiana University Alliance
Beginning in April of 2008, Purdue's GEO has been in dialogue with Indiana University's GEO to form a strategic alliance based upon our shared status as labor organizations that must work without the benefit of collective bargaining rights. We hope that such a partnership will benefit graduate employees throughout Indiana.
Purdue University Progressive Organization Alliances
Purdue GEO has been fortunate to make alliances with other progressive student organizations at Purdue to establish solidarity on important political and social issues at Purdue and beyond. We are especially grateful to the Purdue Organization for Labor Equality (POLE) and the other members of the Purdue Progressive Coalition for providing crucial support during our first years of organizing. GEO will be participating in events with other member groups of the Progressive Coalition beginning in the Fall semester of 2008.
Other Affiliated Labor Organizations
Unionized Big Ten Institutions
To see what graduate student organizing has already done for other Big Ten institutions, just look over some of their websites.- Michigan State University - Graduate Employees' Union (GEU)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO)
- University of Iowa - Campaign to Organize Graduate Students (COGS)
- University of Michigan - Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison - Teachers Assistants’ Association (TAA)
Other Unionized Universities
More than thirty (30) institutions have successfully unionized. Due to a strong and active membership, these institutions have successfully gained an increase in stipends, better health care packages, including dental and vision, and have implemented strong protections against overwork, and workplace discrimination. We encourage you to visit each of their websites and review their accomplishments!
You will also find other resources and up to date news about graduate employee unions across the continent at the Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions' website.
- California State University system
- City University of New York
- Columbia University
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
- New York University
- Oregon State University
- Rutgers University
- Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
- State University of New York System
- Temple University
- University of California system
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois, Chicago
- University of Illinois, Springfield
- University of Kansas, Lawrence
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- University of Massachusetts, Boston
- University of Massachusetts, Lowell
- University of Oregon
- University of Rhode Island
- University of South Florida
- University of Washington, Seattle
- University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Wayne State University
- Western Michigan University
- Yale University
