How can GEU help?
We at GEU stand in solidarity with our fellow PSU unions, PSU-AAUP, PSUFA, and SEIU. All of us are committed to creating a safe, nurturing learning environment for students, faculty, staff, and community members. If you’re interested in helping, you can sign a letter of solidarity with PSU-AAUP.
Solidarity includes supporting our fellow PSU unions when they need to strike. You have the right to support in the following ways according to the GEU contract:
https://pdxgeu.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GEU_CBA_2022-2026_0-1.pdf
- Section 27.3 – Inability to Work During Strike of Another Bargaining Unit
- ln the event that an employee is unable to perform their assigned duties because equipment or facilities are not available due to a strike, work stoppage or slowdown by any other employees, such inability to provide work shall not be deemed a lockout and GAs shall not suffer any subsequent loss of pay or benefits.
- Section 27.4 – Temporary Assignment During Strike of Another Bargaining Unit
- In the event of a strike by other employee bargaining units, GAs may be asked to temporarily perform work that is not normally in their regular work duties, with the understanding that GAs will not be required to perform work that they believe is outside their area of experience, beyond their capabilities, beyond their FTE, or that they consider unsafe.”
More ways to help:
- One of the most powerful things you can do here, and to advocate for yourself, is to track you hours. Tracking hours helps you to show what you work on and for how long, in order to ensure that your employer is not going against contract by requiring you to “perform work that they believe is outside their area of experience, beyond their capabilities, beyond their FTE, or that they consider unsafe.”
You can use this GEU Hour Tracker Template, or another system that works for you.
- You can also note your solidarity with the faculty at the University of Oregon.
Unity and solidarity are what can help get us through.