We R.A.I.S.E. each other up!
Recognition and Development
We insist the university take into account the many roles of Graduate Employees on campus and provide ample support for those roles, both individually and in general. We expect the university to treat GEs – the group that teaches the most classes and produces the most research on campus – as professionals and to support our service to the university. We demand recognition of the critical roles GEs play at this university and for the administration to invest in our development as researchers, teachers, and professionals.
Accountability, Transparency, and Participation
We demand the university act transparently to assure accountability on decisions that affect the GE population, undergraduates, and faculty. GE hiring decisions should be made in tandem with graduate workers, our students should not fear immigration enforcement in our classrooms, and the university must make tangible movement towards a more inclusive, diverse, and equitable campus.
International Student Advocacy
We demand the university recognize the needs of international employees and students. International graduate workers are in an increasingly precarious position with their visa status under constant threat from heinous immigration policies. The university must ensure that international GEs are treated with the same dignity and respect as domestic GEs while removing economic and administrative barriers to their flourishing.
Safety, Equity, and Inclusivity
We stand for the fair treatment of all GEs regardless of their identity or status. We demand that disparities not exist between GEs on the basis of ethnicity, race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, etc. Where disparities do exist, we demand the university take actionable, concrete steps to rectify those inequities. In particular, we intend to dramatically improve the lives of parents, GEs of color, GEs with disabilities, and those of non-normative sexual and gender identities by providing more services and preventing discrimination throughout the university.
Economically Fair and Dignified Standard of Living
We demand the university support the well-being of its GEs by finally committing to a real living wage and support for affordable housing. The vast majority of GE salaries remain well under the university’s own cost of living calculations. Housing prices continue to skyrocket year-to-year throughout Eugene, leaving many GEs without safe and affordable housing. Combined, these two pincers leave many GEs with constant economic anxiety and in tremendous debt. We will not rest until the university treats its teachers and researchers with the dignity they deserve through adequate financial compensation.
BARGAINING PROPOSAL
See all of the changes the GTFF Bargaining Committee would like to make to our contract with the university:
GTFF Bargaining Proposal – 11/9/2018
Read a summary of these proposals as of January 2019:
Info Booklet