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AFL-CIO Convention Nominations

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Benefits Grievance: a Major Victory!

We finally have some progress to report on our health insurance issues.

Today's Health Insurance Benefits Issue

As most members are by now aware, we learned on the morning of 2/11/22 that PacificSource was erroneously reporting that all GRU members had no health insurance, resulting in the denial of cove

General Meeting Membership - Sept. 2021

Ahoy there, bargaining unit member! Welcome to the new academic and work year, 2021-2022. On September 23rd, 2021, we hosted our second-ever General Membership Meeting (GMM), and our first this year! This event was open to all registered, dues-paying graduate researchers and due to COVID-19 was held via Zoom. At this meeting, we:

General Membership Meeting - Feb. 2021

On February 18, 2021, we hosted our first-ever General Membership Meeting (GMM)! This event was open to all registered, dues-paying graduate researchers and due to COVID-19 was held via Zoom. At this meeting, we:

GRU demands that OHSU combat police brutality

Graduate Researchers United condemns the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Ahmaud Arbery, and David McAtee and the violent repression of protests by police around the country. We stand in solidarity with demonstrators who are fighting for racial justice and an end to police brutality.

GRU Response to OHSU Budget Actions

According to Dr. Danny Jacob’s email from last Thursday, OHSU is making changes in order to address the budget deficit brought on by COVID-19. Dr. Jacobs’s email contained information about how salary cuts will be implemented for research staff and faculty. If anyone attended Peter Barr-Gillespie’s Research Town Hall yesterday, you may have heard that OHSU will likely approach GRU to re-negotiate stipends.

Who Are AFSCME?

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PSU-American Association of Univ. Professors Stand In Solidarity With Us