The Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions is a coalition of unions representing graduate employees at universities in Canada and the United States. The coalition formed in 1992 and each year it organizes a yearly conference at which representatives from graduate employee unions come together to teach and learn from each other about organizing, negotiating contracts, tactics, and mobilization of members. At each conference the delegates spend part of one of the days on the picket line in solidarity with a group of striking workers in the city hosting the conference. In the period between conferences CGEU provides a forum for graduate employee unions to share information with each other, and maintains a website with information about graduate employee organizing. The coalition is unusual among labor organizations in that it is made up of locals from many different international unions such as the AFT and UAW in the USA and CUPE in Canada, as well as some number of independent unions.

The 15th annual CGEU conference will take place in August 2006 in Philadelphia, jointly hosted by GET-UP/AFT, TUGSA/AFT, and Rutgers AAUP-AFT.

See also

• National Labor Relations Act
• GESO - Graduate employee union at Yale University
• GSOC - Graduate employee union at New York University
• GET-UP - Graduate employee union at the University of Pennsylvania

External links

• Official CGEU website
• UAW local 4132 - University of California graduate employee union

Trade unions of Canada | Trade unions of the United States