Did you know that the GEU hosts a number of social events as well as our general membership meetings each term?
These events are open to all graduate employees, regardless of union membership! Check out our calendar here, or read more about what we have coming up below!

Coming up next!

GEU Open House – Thursday, October 2nd 1pm-4pm
Come down to our office in Fariborz Maseeh Hall Basement 134 and meet the executive board, chat with your fellow graduate employees, and ask any questions you may have about the GEU!

Mean Girls Day GEU Social – Friday, October 3rd 4:30pm-6:30pm
Join us at Schmizza Pub & Grub on 415 SW Montgomery St on campus for a casual meet and greet and social event. We are hosting a start of term social on Friday- Let us buy you pizza!

GEU General Membership Meeting – Friday, October 17th 11:30am-1:30pm
This will be our first general membership meeting of the 2025-2026 year! Join us at Fariborz Maseeh Hall Basement 134 to discuss bargaining and CAT (Contract Acton Team, the folks focusing on organizing and working hand in hand with the bargaining team). Learn to join the B-team or CAT. Non-member graduate employees welcome, you can sign up for membership at the meeting if you’d like to join a committee/team!

GEU is excited to be partnering with Innovation Law Lab to host a Know Your Rights training! Supervisory Senior Attorney Kelsey Provo will be presenting on everyone’s rights as a US resident, and how to assert those rights when interacting with immigration enforcement, police, and other officials.

Innovation Law Labs work with Equity Corps Oregon and other partners to provide legal aid, advocacy, and assistance to immigrants and refugees. You can check out ILL’s know your rights materials as well.

Register Here: https://pdx.zoom.us/meeting/register/Tvg7hQ1vQtuIYYCGW3Ws5w

We’re working on getting more direct resources for y’all, but in the meantime here’s some we as graduate students, employees, and Portlanders have access to.

Legal Resources

• PSU Student Legal Services – since we pay (through our work) for student fees, we have access to Student Legal Services. They can’t help with conflicts with PSU students, faculty, admin, or staff, but they can (and do) help with immigration related questions.
• IMIrJ Accompaniment – From the Interfaith Movement for Immigrant Justice, if you want a volunteer to go with you to immigration-related appointments, someone can go with you.
• Latino Network – reliable legal help, information, and other resources.
• PSU also recommends Immigration Counseling Service, Catholic Charities of Portland Immigration Legal Services, and SOAR Immigration Legal Services.

Immigration Enforcement can be reported to Portland Immigrant Resource Center at 1-888-622-1510. If you see ICE officers or other individuals doing immigration related enforcement in our area, call it in!

Also remember, ICE is not allowed in any place on our campus that is not open to the general public. Classrooms and research labs and offices are not open to the general public. PSU is currently recommending that you call campus safety (CPSO, emergency #503-725-5911) or the office of general counsel (#503-725-2636) for assistance in dealing with any outside immigration agents.

We as a union can stand up on these issues, if folks come to help us do that. We have an International Caucus if you’d like to spend some time in solidarity with your fellow international graduate workers, and for everyone who wants to organize, we have our Organizing Committee.

The Associated Students of Portland State University, the Graduate Employees Union at PSU, PSUFA AFT local 3571, PSU-AAUP, and SEIU Local 503 Chapter 89 reject the premise of the federally directed investigation into antisemitism at PSU. This investigation emerges not from a specific complaint from a PSU community member, but instead from the Trump administration’s desire to intimidate higher education writ large into compliance with the administration’s highly partisan goals and agenda by threatening select institutions with having their federal funding revoked. To achieve this end, the Trump administration has decided to weaponize a highly controversial and contested definition of antisemitism that conflates criticism of state policy with discrimination in order to suppress free speech, political dissent, and the academic freedom that is essential to a rigorous college education. 

We reject, and call on PSU leadership to reject, this and all other efforts by the Trump administration to characterize student, staff, and faculty protest against war and genocide as antisemitic or supportive of terrorism. Protests against state violence which has been identified by the international community as long-form crimes against humanity is not antisemitism, nor is support for Palestinian peoples facing genocide.

 We also reject harassment of any kind, particularly of our Jewish and Palestinian students, co-workers, and colleagues. We call on PSU leadership to protect students, staff, and faculty in response to this baseless investigation. We have a duty of care to all of the students who come to PSU and trust us with their education. It would be a failure of this duty to allow our students to be targeted by this spurious investigation. The stakes of this investigation for campus workers are high and the administration has an obligation to protect the campus community against baseless political investigations that seek to chill academic speech and freedom of expression.

Signatories

• The Graduate Employees Union at PSU (AFT/AAUP # 6666)
• SEIU Local 503, Chapter 89 (PSU)
• PSUFA AFT local 3571 
• Associated Students Of Portland State University
• PSU – AAUP

March 7, 2025

Millar Library Graduate Hub

Food 12:30pm

Event 1:00pm

RSVP Here to let us know you’re coming!

We need volunteers! Set up, Clean up, Flyering… Sign up to volunteer for the GMM here