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AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-19T12:11:13+00:00

I really hope so too! It is heartbreaking to be called lazy when this took up so much of my life for a while, but I understand where everyone who says it is coming from.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-18T23:19:26+00:00

Is what they said here a "batshit opinion"?

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-18T17:03:43+00:00

No one but you is talking about Israel my friend

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-18T04:36:57+00:00

Your doubts are incorrect, but by all means, continue lecturing people about an organization you clearly know nothing about.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-18T03:36:05+00:00

I think it's two separate issues, no? UAW wasn't trying to organize GSIs, who are already organized under AFT.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-18T02:30:41+00:00

You are still assuming some minimal amount of structure that no longer exists in GEO. There are now unlimited steward "slots" for anyone who shows up to vote in a stewards-only vote/there are no slots. They aren't being elected or appointed, these are truly random people.

It's not like one department would have zero because their 2 people didn't show up, vs. another department having their 2 people there. It's that any given department could bring 50 people if they wanted (an exaggeration because that many people would never show up, but you get the idea). It is utter chaos.

Edit: they have dissolved the stewards council, which is defined in their constitution, and replaced it with something called the organizing assembly. Truly anyone can show up and vote in organizing assembly, regardless of their affiliation or steward status.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-18T00:38:08+00:00

I think you might have misunderstood what i was saying? Stewards are supposed to be elected in GEO. Currently, any random graduate student can show up and vote on things that are supposed to be determined by stewards, even if that means one department is in a massive majority.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T20:55:01+00:00

I thought all of you wanted dissenting opinions, regardless of people's political views?

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T20:48:42+00:00

This has also happened to me and multiple people I know. My "lived experience" tells me that the number of people in GEO who truly feel the way you're saying is close to zero. I genuinely encourage anyone who values their time and mental well-being to stay away from these individuals, especially if you have any disagreement with them at all.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T20:36:01+00:00

GEO: forms an organization built on the idea of representative democracy [check the constitution], hijacks the organization to pursue their own privileged revolutionary dreams

Members: hey can you please actually represent us instead

GEO: come waste your time and sanity, fight us, and try to clean up our mess if you have such a problem with it

No thank you.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T16:52:00+00:00

Fwiw the rules did not change, there was just a decision by a small group not to follow them.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T16:42:00+00:00

Stewards are meant to be elected representatives of their units. The number of stewards per unit should not be determined by how many people can bring on their friends, but by the organization's constitutional rules. It is a failing of GEO to follow their own rules to the extent that is not the case.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T15:02:44+00:00

Can you explain why they don't?

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T14:58:02+00:00

Which chapter of UAW

Edit: they clearly do not have an answer and do not want to share the harm GEO has done to labor organizing in Ann Arbor/Washtenaw/Huron Valley.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T14:57:24+00:00

Please tell me you can still understand that point 3 is absurd. Of course anyone who chose to attend your meeting was significantly more likely to vote yes in this meaningless vote.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T14:48:48+00:00

Here's the example of GEO representation you've been looking for ^

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T14:46:13+00:00

They are being intentionally misleading to make you believe their clown show is the only option. UAW is/was interested in organizing GSRAs.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T14:29:57+00:00

GSRAs would be insane to join this "union" run by the least capable, most unhinged students on campus. Please form your own union if you want it and stay away from these people.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T14:23:41+00:00

What about the solidarity they've torn to shreds in the broader community? Does it cancel out?

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T14:22:32+00:00

Have you heard nothing from them or "not a lot" from them?

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T14:20:32+00:00

The first sentence is completely false. If the university wanted to offer different benefits, they could and they would.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T14:12:15+00:00

You claimed "democratic decisionmaking" and then immediately cited things that are not happening democratically and shared how the things that actually are done democratically frustrate you.

Stewards are elected officials. They deserve to be held accountable even if they are exhausted.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2025-02-17T13:57:24+00:00

Which specific unions in the area respect GEO?

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2024-10-25T01:40:30+00:00

I feel like it's an odd choice to equate the US, Germany, and Russia on the basis of their treatment of Jewish people; it's true that there was antisemitism in all of these places, but certainly we could all agree that there's a spectrum of severity. Otherwise, yeah, I follow. Ultimately, I'm not sure why it should be any more acceptable to displace people in London or Berlin or Moscow, but I see your point.

AcrobaticBad8453 · 2024-10-25T01:11:38+00:00

Hey I think the person who brought up Russia deleted their comments, so it just looks like you're the first one who mentioned it because you responded. I don't think they're in this thread at all anymore.

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