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Latest News

May 5: Diamondback: Rally revitalizes talks over univ. workers' contracts.

April 30: FY09 stipend levels announced, including a 4.55% raise for all GA's.

April 18: insidehighered.com: Senator Ted Kennedy introduces legislation to grant collective bargaining rights to grad employees at private institutions. AFT blog here.

April 16: Gazette: (Montgomery) Part-time college faculty still pressing for equal pay.

March 31: insidehighered.com: Better Contracts for Full-Time Adjuncts

March 28: insidehighered.com: New Impacts Seen for Faculty Unions

March 21: Grad School releases 2007 report

March 17: The Daily Tar Heel: UM's union efforts falter

March 12: Montgomery Gazette: (Montgomery College) Adjunct professors look to unionize over pay, benefits

March 4: Baltimore Examiner: Graduate students unionizing efforts take hit

March 3: Diamondback: Grad student union efforts take a hit

February 26: Diamondback: Anthropology professor Aubrey Williams dead at 83 (Aubrey Williams was the faculty advisor for the student group Students for the Advancement of Graduate Employee Rights)

February 20: WTOP News: Maryland Grad Students Seeking to Unionize

February 20: Baltimore Sun: Bill would widen right to organize

February 20: Baltimore Examiner: Graduate students ask lawmakers for right to unionize

February 19: WYPR radio broadcast: Collective Bargaining for UMD Graduate Students?

February 15: AFL-CIO blog: University of Maryland Graduate Student Employees Fighting for a Union

February 14: Diamondback column by Danny Rogers: Graduate Gratitude

February 12: Baltimore Examiner: Grad students fight for right to form a union

February 12: Diamondback: Grad students lobbying hard for union bill

February 3: Washington Post: Grad Students May Get to Unionize.

October, 2007: UMD's Sociology newsletter includes contribution from Laura Moore, "A Case for Grad Student Unionization."

Check out worldwide university rankings by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. UMCP ranks 37th, and all public universities with higher rankings have unionized grad students.

Check out details on Rutgers' new contract, which includes a 32% pay increase over 4 years (8% a year) while protecting their 15-hour work week.

October, 2007: University of California graduate employee union ratifies contract, including a 5% yearly pay raise, new provisions for personal, sick, family and bereavement leave, childcare subsidies, and workload enforcement. More detail here.

Sept. 10, 2007 Diamondback column: Meet MTR.

Sept. 4, 2007: Diamondback coverage: Grad students renew union efforts...

Interim Organizing Committee

Maren Cummings, WMST (mabcummings@gmail) Ebony Dashiell, EDHD (edashiell@yahoo) Kyle Gustafson, PHYS (kgustaf@umd) Susan Macek, GVPT (smacek@gvpt.umd) Angel Miles, WMST (amiles3@umd) Laura Moore, ENTM (lauracat@umd) Lisa Pfeifer, BIOL (pfeiferL@aol) Danny Rogers, CHPH (drogers2@umd)

Department Coordinators

Arts and Humanities (ARHU)

Angel Miles, WMST (amiles3@umd) Genevieve Page, WMST (genevievepage@yahoo) Maren Cummings, WMST (mabcummings@gmail) Maria Velazquez, ANTH (maria.i.velazquez@gmail) Melissa Stevens, ANTH (mstevens@umd) Paul Gibson, HIST (slcpaul@umd) Paul Gibson, HIST (slcpaul@umd) Paul Gibson, HIST (slcpaul@umd)

Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (ARCH)

Rob Goodspeed, CMPL (rob.goodspeed@gmail)

Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS)

Amber Stoesser, CCJS (astoesser@crim.umd) Mary Lindsey, GEOG (lindsey@umd) Breanna Forni, GVPT (breanna.forni@gmail) Susan Macek, GVPT (smacek@gvpt.umd) Jesse- Douglass Matthewson, GVPT (jmathewson@gvpt.umd) Benli Shechter, GVPT (bmshechter@gvpt.umd) Katarzyna Skuratowicz, SOCY (kskurato@socy.umd) Zeynep Atalay, SOCY (zatalay@socy.umd) Nihal Celik, SOCY (ncelik@socy.umd) Mehmet Ergun, SOCY (mehmetaergun@gmail)

Business

Billy Grayson, PUAF (wgrayson@umd)

Chemical and Life Sciences (CLFS)

Laura Moore, ENTM (lauracat@umd) Scott Creary, ENTM (screary@umd) Lisa Pfeifer, BIOL (pfeiferL@aol) Varnika Roy, MOCB (varnika.roy@gmail)

Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences (CMPS)

Kyle Gustafson, PHYS (kgustaf@umd) Danny Rogers, CHPH (drogers2@umd) Jaymie Strecker, CMPS (strecker@cs.umd)

Education (EDUC)

Ebony Dashiell, EDHD (edashiell@yahoo)

Engineering (ENGR)

Vivien Lecoustre, ENFP (vivien.lecoustre@gmail)

School of Public Health (SPH)

Jennifer Sterling, KNES (jster@umd)