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Graduate Assistants United
eNewsletter Vol. 2, No. 3, October 16, 2002
http://www.ufgau.org
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You are being sent this newsletter because GAU represents you in
employment matters as a Graduate Assistant at the University of
Florida.  

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IN THIS ISSUE:
Bargaining Ratification Vote - TODAY!
GSC Meeting, Thursday October 17
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BARGAINING RATIFICATION VOTE - Wednesday and Thursday, October 16 & 17!
We need to ratify our tentative agreement.  The ratification election
will be today and tommorrow, Wednesday and Thursday, October 16th and 17th,
from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM.  It will be held at the Reitz Union Collonade.
All graduate research and teaching assistants are encouraged to vote.
Highlights of the new contract include: a 2.5% pay increase for all
graduate assistants with satisfactory performance (effective October 1),
a commitment from the University to more formally discuss health
benefits issues, and greater protection to assure those employees paid
from contracts and grants are paid at least the minimum stipend.
The full text of the agremeent is online at http://www.ufgau.org
We strongly encourage you all to vote FOR this contractual agreement.  
When the State transfers control of UF to the UF Board of Trustees on 
January 7, a ratified agreement will be a stabilizing influence during 
the transition.

GRADUATE STUDENT COUNCIL MEETING
The Graduate Student Council will be holding its monthly meeting on
Thursday, October 17, at 6:30 PM at the Brain Institute on Newall Drive,
just north of Shands.  The theme of this meeting is "Working Together".
Several campus organizations, including GAU, will be present and
discussing ways we can all work together toward our common goals like
health benefits for graduate assistants.  Please come if you have the
opportunity.  Pizza and soda will be provided.

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