The University of Oregon’s graduate employee union Monday filed an Unfair Labor Practice complaint with the state Employment Relations Board alleging the university’s new COVID-19 policies violate their contract.
The Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation says the university’s new policies, announced last week, constitute a change in working conditions for graduate employees — something that must be negotiated through bargaining.
The GTFF requested last Wednesday that UO administration move classes online for two weeks, or until surging COVID-19 cases in the campus community “decrease to a reasonable level.”
