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Grad Worker Overturns Visa Revocation, Wins Backpay
GEO has previously reported about Graduate Worker ‘L’, who lost employment after getting caught up in the wave of visa revocations. We’re glad to announce that L’s status has been restored, OIS has cleared her to resume work. She has received full payment for both months, and has successfully found a position for the summer.…
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New Bill Raises Stakes for Winning Gender-Affirming CampusCare
This week, the US House of Representatives voted in favor of H.R. 1, also dubbed Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” The bill contains several provisions that, if passed onto and voted favorably upon by the US Senate, would affect the lives of millions residing in the United States. This includes new restrictions for welfare programs…
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Members Confront OIS, Get the Cold Shoulder
Seeing as UIC negotiators have evaded our proposals to support international workers, a group of union members took matters into their own hands this past Wednesday. Eight grads confronted the Office of International Services to demand answers and accountability. The story OIS told contradicted UIC’s past responses to the union’s information requests: that OIS has…
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Open Letter on Graduate Admissions Freeze
Over the past weeks, UIC administrators have used economic and political uncertainty as a pretext to centralize power, unilaterally implementing far-reaching changes to our working and learning conditions. From reducing appointments and increasing workloads to outright dissolving entire departments, it is clear that the administration’s so-called savings will be borne by graduate workers and faculty…
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12/4 GMM Report Back
Steering Committee extends our thanks and appreciation to all members who attended our second fall General Membership Meeting this past Wednesday. We also uplift the work of Stewards and Organizing Committee members in exceeding our turnout goals: at 85 individual members present, it was our highest attended General Membership Meeting in the last year. Mass…
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On the Ground with GEO #1
Note: This resource appears to be lost. However, the original interview with Christianna is uploaded here for your consideration. In this first ever issue of On the Ground With GEO, an interview series about union life, we hear from Christianna. Christianna (she/her) is a GEO staff member. On November 22, we got together to talk…
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GEO Statement on Election Results
To all graduate workers at UIC, we are with you. The election results spell safety concerns, unstable laws, and an unreliable government. We, like you, have our fears. Nothing may stay untouched by Donald Trump’s presidency: labor rights, abortion access, asylum and immigration, trans rights, Black lives, and Palestinian lives, and many others. If Trump’s…
The Grind
