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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").<ref>{{cite web |title=About the CSEU |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011192254/https://www.cseu-csee.org/en/about-cseu |access-date=11 October 2023}}</ref>

The Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions consisted of [[trade union|unions]] representing [[graduate student|graduate]] [[employees]] (also known as academic student employees or ASEs) at [[university|universities]] in [[Canada]] and the [[United States]]. 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 [[Picketing (protest)|picket line]] in [[wikt:solidarity|solidarity]] 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.{{fact|date=September 2024}}

The CGEU was made up of locals from many different international unions, including: the [[American Federation of Teachers]], the [[United Auto Workers]], the [[Communication Workers of America]], [[UNITE HERE]], [[United Electrical Workers]], [[National Education Association]], [[American Association of University Professors]], the [[Service Employees International Union]] and the [[Canadian Union of Public Employees]], as well as some independent unions.{{fact|date=September 2024}}

==Conferences==
The 16th annual CGEU conference took place in the summer of 2007 in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]] and was hosted by GEO/UAW.

The 21st annual CGEU conference took place in the summer of 2012 in [[Vancouver|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 [[Campaign to Organize Graduate Students|COGS]].

The 23rd annual CGEU conference took place in the summer of 2014 in [[Montreal, QC]] and was hosted by [[AGSEM]][https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085811/http://tas.agsem-aeedem.ca/].

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

The 25th annual CGEU conference will take place on August 13–16, 2016, in [[Los Angeles]], to be hosted by [[UC Student-Workers Union]] (UAW 2865) at [[University of California, Los Angeles]].{{fact|date=September 2024}}

==See also==
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* [[List of graduate student employee unions]]
* [[National Labor Relations Act]]
* [[Rand formula]]
* [[2011 Wisconsin protests]] - initiated by the [[Teaching Assistants' Association]] (TAA)
* [[2012 Quebec student protests]]
* [[2009 California college tuition hike protests]]

==External links==
* CGEU - archived websites [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510075646/http://cgeu.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page first], [https://web.archive.org/web/20181002121842/http://www.thecgeu.org/ second]
* [[UAW]] [http://UAW2865.org Local 2865] - [[University of California]] academic student employee union
* [[UAW]] [http://UAW4121.org Local 4121] - [[University of Washington]] academic student employee union
* [[UAW]] [http://UAW2322.org Local 2322] - [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] academic student employee union
* [[Teaching Support Staff Union|TSSU]] [http://www.tssu.ca/ (Website)] - [[Simon Fraser University]] Teaching Assistant and Sessional employee union

==References==
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[[Category:Graduate school trade unions]]
[[Category:Trade unions in Canada]]
[[Category:Trade unions in the United States]]
[[Category:Trade unions established in 1992]]

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