Dear Colleagues,
As part of your Chapter Board Meeting this week, members of the Board approved support of a petition being generated by our colleagues of the Graduate Student Employee Union (GSEU).
Members are encouraged to see the following from UB GSEU Chief Steward, Joseph Sechrist, and participate in signing the petition:
Hi everyone,
As you know, the College of Arts and Sciences within the University at Buffalo set a $20,000 stipend baseline for full-time funded PhD graduate workers in 2019. In June of this year, we also got broad-based fees covered for full-time funded PhD graduate workers. However, there are still many exceptions to the rule – too many graduate workers at UB still make less than $20k and still pay fees. So, GSEU is currently circulating a petition calling for a 22k stipend and fee waivers for all graduate workers. While this is still well short of a living wage, we want to eliminate inequities in our pay as a first unified step. More details are in the petition itself.
We’d really appreciate if you’d be willing to sign the petition in solidarity (you can sign on as faculty, staff, etc.) and share it with your respective members to sign as well!
Thank you,
– Joey
Chief Steward, UB GSEU
In Solidarity,
Ken Kern
Chapter President
UUP Buffalo Center