Graduate Student Walkout

hoedown
Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:20:00 +0000

I don’t know–I haven’t heard that, but it doesn’t mean it’s not a big issue.

GEO is a closed shop. If you’re a graduate student employee, you are represented by the GEO, like it or not. It’s certainly true that they tend to advocate for graduate students who work as GSIs, which means that grad students with research positions (instead of instructional positions) have issues which may not be the issues that GEO pushes to the fore. I don’t know if time-to-degree plays a big role in what they’re arguing about this year, though.

It’s possible that STEM GSI’s will cross the picket lines if it comes to a work stoppage. When I was represented by the GEO, I would have.