Graduate Employees Union -- Michigan State University / Recognition

From CGEU

ARTICLE 4 RECOGNITION

Michigan State University -and- Graduate Employees Union/AFT

Pursuant to authority vested in the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that Graduate Employees Union/AFT has been designated and selected by a majority of the employees of the above-named employer, in the unit described below, as their representative for the purposes of collective bargaining, and that pursuant to Sections 26 and 27 of Act No. 176 of the Public Acts of 1939, as amended, or Sections 11 and 12 of Act 336 of the Public Acts of 1947, as amended, the said organization is the exclusive representative of all the employees in such unit for the purposes of collective bargaining with respect to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment, and other conditions of employment.

Unit:

Included:

All graduate assistants at MSU appointed as teaching assistants, except for those teaching assistants excluded below.

Excluded:

1. All graduate assistants appointed as research assistants, as exemplified by the status quo appointment practices in use as of February 2, 2001.

2. All graduate assistants appointed as teaching assistants:

a. Whose responsibilities are as Assistant Hall Directors (formerly known as residence hall advisors);

b. Who supervise other graduate teaching assistants where the supervision involves intervention as needed and the taking of action: (a) if a recitation section or class is offtrack and/or (b) when course information is not delivered to the students; and/or (c) where it involves the evaluation of the performance of a teaching assistant on behalf of the faculty member of record;

c. Whose responsibilities are as graders who do not have direct classroom and/or laboratory instructional responsibilities and/or personal contact in pre-scheduled and posted office hours;

d. Whose responsibilities are to advise or consult and who (a) do not have direct classroom and/or laboratory instructional responsibilities or (b) do not have office hours for purposes other than advising or consulting;

e. Whose responsibilities are to tutor and who are not employed primarily to assist students enrolled in a specific course;

f. Who are GAANN fellows or others on similar state or federal training grants;

g. Who teach courses offered by the MSU Detroit College of Law and who are paid by reimbursement funds from MSU-DCL.

3. All other employees.