Category: Bargaining Blog

The GTFF bargaining team spent nearly 24 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday in mediation with the UO Administration. The teams collaborated to develop a new model that could meet the GTF need for medical and parental leave. Our bargaining team convened an emergency executive council meeting Tuesday night. The council empowered the bargaining team to… Continue reading President’s Update on Bargaining

There has been a lot of confusion over undergraduate grades if a potential GTFF strike were to occur. Our allies at United Academics have done a lot of research on this topic to work out the details about what is actually going on. Conclusions they have drawn are linked below. ‘X’ Grades and Financial Aid:… Continue reading Confusion over Undergraduate Grades

Dear Members, It is out of great concern for the wellbeing of GTFs that our Executive Council voted this week to give notice to the University Administration of our intent to strike on Tuesday, December 2nd. Our Executive Council is made up of elected representatives from departments across campus; our members have delegated to them… Continue reading Letter from GTFF President

The blatant mischaracterization of gifting GTFs with a $61 student fee limit, tuition waiver and 95% health insurance coverage that has been emailed to the entire campus community is inappropriate and inaccurate. The benefits list are a part of the previous GTFF collective bargaining agreement. Full tuition wavers were never up for bargaining, and are not… Continue reading Comment on Provost Bronet’s email

The GTFF is holding informational pickets the week of November 17 – November 21. These pickets will be to inform the campus about a potential strike. The pickets will occur between 11:30am and 12:30pm each day of the week at different locations. These locations are below. Buildings in parenthesis are nearby locations that the pickets may… Continue reading Informational Pickets This Week

The Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation, the union representing 1500 graduate employees at the University of Oregon, has been bargaining with the University of Oregon Administration over a new contract since November, 2013. This October, the membership voted overwhelmingly to authorize our leadership to call for a strike if the final two items on the bargaining table… Continue reading GTFF Bargaining Information

The Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO), the elected student government at the University of Oregon, released a statement in support of the GTFF (original announcement here and a local copy of their letter is attached below). Our relationship with the ASUO is very important to the GTFF, as we both endeavor to improve the education… Continue reading GTFF Support from ASUO

October 24, 2014 This past week the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF) voted overwhelmingly to authorize their bargaining team to call for a strike if the University of Oregon’s Administration continues not to meet the needs of their graduate employees. Impasse will begin on Monday, starting a 30 day “cooling off” period between both parties.… Continue reading Presidential Strike Letter

This evening, members of the Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (GTFF) packed the auditorium of South Eugene High School for an Emergency General Membership Meeting. The meeting was called to allow GTFF members to discuss the final proposal made by the University of Oregon Administration’s bargaining team and to ultimately decide whether to hold a contract… Continue reading GTFF declares impasse, proceeds towards strike

Last week, the GTFF executive council called for an emergency GMM to for the members to make some decisions about bargaining: Does the current proposal by the Administration meet the needs of graduate students, or should we continue along the path towards a strike? We’ll have to have a final ballot box vote after this meeting,… Continue reading Emergency GMM – October 17