What is the Bargaining Unit (BU)?
The bargaining unit consists of all the graduate employees who are technically covered by the CGE-OSU contract. This is complicated, since OSU applies the terms of the contract equally to both BU and non-BU grad employees. Formally, to be in the BU, a grad employee must have an appointment of at least 0.15 FTE, at least 0.1 of which is considered in service to the university. Decisions about who is and is not in service to the university are made by individual departments, but generally, grad employees who are doing research that will count towards their degree are not considered in service to the university and are thus not in the BU.
