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Welcome to the CGEU Wiki! The Coalition of Graduate Employees consists of labor unions and organizing drives in the United States and Canada that represent graduate and undergraduate students employed as teachers, tutors, researchers, and administrative staff. This wiki is for the Graduate Employee Movement. Its aim is to foster collaborative online organizing and information sharing.

"Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests." -- from Article 23, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

CGEU Projects CGEU Activities CGEU Annual Conference The 2012 Conference will be jointly hosted by TSSU (Simon Fraser University) and CUPE 2278 (University of British Columbia) in Vancouver, British Columbia CGEU Constitution draft committee Constitution Draft 2011 CGEU Resolution regarding a Constitution draft committee CGEU listerv CGEU on Facebook – posting the latest news on the Higher Ed labor movement CGEU Logo Research Resources ContractWiki – links to every graduate employee union contract in the United States and Canada, plus salary tables and a whole lot more! Strategic Research Higher Education Data Resources Graduate Student Due Process Rights/Policies Academic Freedom Work and Family Issues Employment Accomodations National Labor Relations Board Decisions Image Database Organizing Resources Steward Training Campaign and Action Planning Political Action Picket Songs/Chants Worker/Union-themed Movies Archived Projects

Graduate Students United protest at NLRB in Chicago, 13 December 2011

The State of Academic Labor Unionization "Mackinac Center, Student Team Up to Stop Union Drive at U-M," Detroit Free Press, 7/28/2011 "A Debate Reopened," InsideHigherEd.com, 6/21/2010 "NLRB Official's Ruling Bolsters Drive to Unionize NYU Teaching Assistants," Chronicle of Higher Education, 6/20/2011 "N.Y.U. Teaching Assistants’ Unionization Hopes Get a Boost‏," New York Times, 6/20/2011 Employment Trends "The Essential T.A.," New York Times, 7/22/2011 "Faulty Towers: The Crisis in Higher Education," The Nation, 5/4/2011 Graduate School "The Path Forward: The Future of Graduate Education in the United States" -- Commission on the Future of Graduate Education in the United States (Council of Graduate Schools and Educational Testing Service), 2010 Media and Journals Weblogs

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