The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/cgsu/)
“Hey hey! Ho ho! Cornell’s greed has got to go!” could be heard from the courtyard between Uris Hall and Statler Hotel Thursday afternoon as graduate students gathered to express discontent with the University’s mental health services, particularly services for graduate students.
The six demands in the petition included an external review of Cornell Counseling and Psychological Services, gym membership reimbursement, improvement of the therapy referral process and others.
Cornell Graduate Students Union discusses new “winnable,” campaign and mental health during their Wednesday afternoon meeting, the first of the semester.
The result means CGSU will not be able to file another unionization election petition for a year — until May 25, 2019.
CGSU members reflected that while the arbitrator found that Cornell violated the National Labor Relations Act, the results of the March 2017 election will be certified as a loss for the union.
The arbitrator found that the email sent on March 26, 2017, by Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School Barbara Knuth contained a statement that violated the NLRA, according to the arbitrator’s award document.
A controversial email sent by an administrator to graduate students during the March 2017 union recognition election will be considered as evidence during the arbitration process to decide whether the University violated the election agreement.
Cornell Graduate Students United will request to file objections regarding the University’s conduct in its March 2017 union recognition election on Friday.
“[The offered settlements] frankly didn’t have many of the features we would have liked to protect us from the University breaking our agreements like they did during the last campaign,” said Jaron Kent-Dobias grad, CGSU communications and outreach.
With negotiations at a “standstill,” CGSU is bringing the possibility for a re-election to its membership with a referendum vote.