Hello!
We at UB’s Graduate Students Employees Union (GSEU) are reaching out because graduate workers need your help! As you know, the College of Arts and Sciences within the University at Buffalo set a $20,000 stipend baseline for full-time funded PhD graduate workers. In June of this year, more campaigning by GSEU and LSM led to broad-based fees being covered by UB university-wide for full-time funded PhD graduate workers. However, there are still far too many exceptions to the rule – too many graduate workers at UB still make less than $20k and still pay fees. Not to mention, those of us who do receive $20k are still well short of a living wage in Erie County.
Therefore, we are currently circulating a petition to set a university-wide $22,000 minimum stipend and waive broad-based fees for ALL graduate workers at UB, without exception. While this is still short of a living wage, we want to eliminate inequities in our pay as a first unified step.
If you are a graduate worker, student, faculty, staff, alum, or community supporter at UB or any other SUNY campus, we urge you to sign this petition and share it as widely as you can before next Thursday (Nov. 18th).
Thank you,
UB GSEU leadership
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UB LIVING STIPEND MOVEMENT
https://ublivingstipend.wordpress.com/