We were the last of the Big
Ten universities without a uniform tuition remission plan for graduate
employees. We won a partial tuition remission plan that will halt
the erosion of our salary increases due to massive tuition hikes.
COGS also fought off the university's attempt to
deteriorate our health insurance
by shifting many costs to employees.
This settlement is the product
of years of hard work to achieve a tuition benefit. It is also a
testament to the power of an active, hard working union membership who
are determined to make sure the value of graduate employee labor is appropriately
respected and compensated.
Read about it at
http://www.cogs.org/contractsettlement.htm
Keep up the fight!
Lise VanderVoort
President
COGS-UE Local 896
"The Members Run This Union" |