CGEU 2008 Conference

The 17th Annual CGEU conference will be held at Yale University in New Haven, CT
on July 31 - Aug 3, 2008.

Conference Information available at geso.org and on the CGEU Wiki.

Please contact Mary Reynolds, UNITE HERE/GESO, for more information: mary@yaleunions.org or 203-500-4698.

Higher education is one of the fastest growing sectors of the U.S. economy. Despite the economic downturn, many university endowments are hitting record highs (at Yale, for example, the endowment topped $22 billion in 2007). Public and private universities are competing in a race to open campuses abroad and build partnerships with foreign universities, particularly in the Middle East and China. In the United States, campuses are expanding to attract a record number of potential undergraduates.

The CGEU and the academic labor movement can provide a model for how to combat the increasing corporatization and casualization in the academy. Graduate teachers and researchers have an opportunity to use the expansion in higher education and our contract negotiations or demands for recognition to increase the number of good, union faculty jobs on our campuses. We must create and strengthen coalitions with other workers and unions on our campuses and across the academy, develop legislative and bargaining strategies to protect and expand organizing rights for more workers, and build consensus that union growth and power is the most important issue facing all academic workers.

Workshops could include:

Archived CGEU 2006 Conference Information