I’ve heard that Indiana has laws prohibiting us from unionizing. Is this true?How does GEO plan to tackle large-scale workplace and support issues until we gain the right to collective bargaining?
Under the current Indiana Public Sector Labor Law no other public employee, except for teachers, has collective bargaining rights. Public employees, including graduate employees, are eligible to receive collective bargaining rights through an executive order from a sitting governor. Such an executive order was implemented in 1990, administering collective bargaining rights to a large number of public employees. The 1990 order did not include graduate employees, but there would be nothing to prevent a future governor from doing so. Unfortunately, executive orders can be easily withdrawn, and the 1990 order was withdrawn by a later governor, thereby stripping public sector employees of their bargaining rights. Nonetheless, an executive order provides stronger bargaining rights than does voluntary recognition. Democratic candidate Jill Long Thompson has committed to introducing an executive order, should she win the Governor’s seat in the fall of 2008. Since Jill Long Thompson is sympathe
