The Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions (CGEU) was re-founded as the Coalition of Student Employee Unions (CSEU/CSEE) in 2020 to reflect the broader membership of student employees (rather than the more narrow "graduate employees"). The Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions consisted of unions representing graduate

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(also known as academic student employees or ASEs) at

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and the

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. The CGEU formed in 1992 and each year it organized an annual conference where representatives from graduate employee unions came together to teach and learn about organizing, negotiating, tactics, and mobilizing members. In past conferences, the delegates spent part of one of the days on the picket line in

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with a group of striking workers in the city hosting the conference, but this did not occur in more recent years. In the period between conferences, the CGEU provided a forum for graduate employee unions to share information with each other, and maintained a website with information about graduate employee organizing. The CGEU was made up of locals from many different international unions, including: the

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, the

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, the

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, UNITE HERE, United Electrical Workers,

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, the Service Employees International Union and the

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, as well as some independent unions.

Conferences

The 16th annual CGEU conference took place in the summer of 2007 in

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and was hosted by GEO/UAW. The 21st annual CGEU conference took place in the summer of 2012 in Vancouver, BC and was hosted by CUPE 2278 and the Teaching Support Staff Union. The 22nd annual CGEU conference took place in the summer of 2013 in Iowa City, IA and was hosted by COGS. The 23rd annual CGEU conference took place in the summer of 2014 in Montreal, QC and was hosted by AGSEM

The 24th annual CGEU conference took place on August 5–8, 2015, in Amherst, MA and was hosted by Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) at

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. The 25th annual CGEU conference will take place on August 13–16, 2016, in

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, to be hosted by UC Student-Workers Union (UAW 2865) at

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External links

* CGEU - archived website
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* UAWbr>Local 2865
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academic student employee union * UAWbr>Local 4121
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academic student employee union * UAWbr>Local 2322
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academic student employee union * TSSUbr>(Website)
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Teaching Assistant and Sessional employee union

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