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** For Immediate
Release **
From:
Kathleen Sims, GSEU
Albany, NY, Area Vice President
To:
Workplace Breaking News
Sent:
Tuesday, January 23
Posted:
Wednesday, January 24
SUNY EMPLOYEES
WIN CONTRACT!
Nearly 5,000
graduate teachers and researchers throughout New York's State
University
system have just gained the opportunity to ratify a newly
settled contract
with the State of New York. Although negotiations have
taken over
2 years, officers and negotiators from the Graduate Student
Employees
Union as well as representatives from the Govenor's Office of
Employee Relations,
SUNY System Administrations and Administrators from
SUNY campuses
throughout the State signed a tentative agreement whose
protections
and benefits include: wage minimums, allocation of
professional
development funds, redress for skyrocketing fees,
approximately
8 million dollars worth of raises, and resolution of
critical problems
with GSEU's health care coverage.
President of
the Graduate Student Employees Union and Chief Contract
Negotiator,
Monazir Khan, said, "At present, SUNY ranks forty-eighth among
the fifty
state university systems in the Nation with respect graduate
employee wages.
As top-notch educators and researchers, we must do our
part in the
fight to ensure that SUNY amplifies its mission of educational
excellence.
This contract is a victory. The improvements in the
tentative
agreement are greater than the increases for members in any
prior contract."
Among other issues, this new contract includes
allocations
totaling $300,000 for professional development, which will
reach the
members during the life of the contract.
Members of
the Graduate Student Employees Union will vote to ratify the
tentative
agreement in February 2001.
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Kathleen Sims
Albany Area Vice President
GRADUATE STUDENT
518.453.2565
EMPLOYEES UNION
518.434.1188 fax
SUNY works because we do!
albany@igc.org
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