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During the most recent bargaining session (December 9th, 2016), we completed a final draft of ground rules. Both teams are reviewing these ground rules, and we’ve scheduled an agenda item to sign them at the beginning of our next meeting, on December 16th. Once we’ve signed the ground rules, we’ll post them publicly. These ground rules allow observers who are members of the PSU community to attend bargaining sessions, and we look forward to seeing you at next term’s first bargaining session, on January 6th, from 9am to 4pm. We’ll follow up with the location and agenda for this meeting.

The GEU Bargaining Team met with administration on Friday, October 28th, 2016, for our first bargaining session. We have established a preliminary set of ground rules for negotiations and a schedule of sessions for the remainder of Fall term, and will finalize a full set of ground rules in our next session. In the next session, we will also continue an ongoing discussion about the specifics of the information request we’ve submitted to quantify GAs’ working conditions, and begin a shared discussion of bargaining interests for future sessions. If you have any questions or want to get involved in the process, please reach out to the bargaining team at bargaining@pdxgeu.org.