GEO-UAW 2322

The Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) is a unit of United Auto Workers Local 2322 (UAW 2322), representing Research Assistants, Teaching Assistants, Teaching Associates, Project Assistants, Interns, Trainees, Assistant Residence Directors, and Working Fellows at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Graduate students on our campus have been organizing for a union since the 1970s. GEO was formally recognized as a union in 1990; we won our first contract in 1991.

We are one of the oldest and strongest graduate worker unions in the country. Our diverse and vocal membership has a proud history of prioritizing union democracy and taking direct action as the best avenue to meet the needs of our bargaining unit. Over the last several decades we have fought assertively for the realization of a highly progressive social agenda. We support the struggle of all workers, and stand in solidarity with other unions and progressive organizations in their fight for social and economic justice.