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Dental Enrollment open until Jan 30, 2012

Need dental? There is still time! Visit www.mysmilecoverage.com/MSUGA to enroll. Click this link: GradAsstDentalPlan for a PDF of rates and benefits. In short, if you are a TA or RA, your cost will be $128.64 for 12 months of coverage. … Continue reading

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Extra Tuition Waiver Credits

If you are a teaching assistant this summer (2012) your tuition waiver will cover 5 credit hours.  If you need to take additional credits, you are not out of luck, though!  During GEU’s contract bargaining with the university last spring, … Continue reading

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Dental & Vision: Get signed up before it’s too late!

Our new dental plan has set to taken effect and based on the volume of calls and emails to the Union office this summer this is a benefit you are excited about! Visit www.mysmilecoverage.com/MSUGA to enroll. What does the new … Continue reading

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GEU Award Winners

The GEU Awards committee has reviewed the nominations and made their selections for the 2010-2011 award recipients. This year’s GEU Outstanding Supervisor is Stephanie Nawyn from the Department of Sociology, and English has been chosen as the GEU Outstanding Department. … Continue reading

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New Contract in Effect (and in the news)

See the recent State News article about the new MSU/GEU contract taking effect. You can see details of the new contract here.

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New Contract for 2011-2015!

The GEU members ratified the tentative agreement reached by the Bargaining Team and representatives of the MSU administration (94% in favor, 3% opposed, 3% abstained). The new contract, once ratified by the MSU Board of Trustees, will take effect May … Continue reading

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Vision Insurance is back!

It’s open enrollment time for the vision plan provided through the MSU Unions. Click here for rate information, plan details and enrollment instruction. Enrollment runs through May 30, 2011 for a July 1, start date.

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GEU’s Tentative Agreement with the University

As you may have heard, our Bargaining Team tentatively settled with the University early Friday morning.  At Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting, Vice-President Andrew Cooper thanked the University for coming to a compromise with us, and reminded them that we are … Continue reading

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1300 TAs, 13 hours… 1 New Contract

After a 13 hour marathon bargaining session last night, the two bargaining teams reached a tentative agreement on a new teaching assistant contract. Nothing is final, however, until ratification by the MSU Board and the GEU members. Stay tuned for … Continue reading

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State News covers Bargaining BBQ

See the State News article about our April 1st Bargaining BBQ outside the Nisbet building. The article does a nice job of covering the issues that remain unresolved at the negotiating table — stipends, tuition waivers, and health care. It … Continue reading

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