ILLINOIS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION- STRONGER TOGETHER
WHO ARE WE?GA United is the union for graduate assistants at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. GA United represents all graduate assistants at SIUC- research, teaching, administrative (non-academic), and graduate employees with assistantships of any other title. We believe that graduate students must stand together on issues that affect their working environment. We are committed to improving teaching, research, and learning conditions at SIUC.
GAU negotiates with the university to create our Collective Bargaining agreement (the GA employee contract). We also advocate for and represent graduate assistant's rights and interests. We do this through community advocacy as well as individual representation. Our grievance officers use informal and formal methods to resolve grievances against violations to terms of our contract including things like due compensation (either in overtime or unpaid time) and addressing workplace conditions and rights (like discrimination and harassment) as well as many other issues/problems. GA United is a local affiliate of the Illinois Education Association (IEA) and nationally with the National Education Association (NEA).
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