The University and the Graduate Employees’ Organization reached a tentative agreement on remaining issues during contract negotiation Tuesday.

The agreement covers not only the nonmonetary issues addressed and agreed upon at Monday’s bargaining session but what many GEO members consider to be the most important issues: tuition waivers, wages and health care. Details of the tentative agreement are not being released at this time.

The agreement was brought to the general GEO membership Tuesday night during a meeting, and the organization will begin a three-day formal voting period at another general membership meeting next week, GEO spokeswoman Stephanie Seawell said. Voting should be finished by the end of that week.

Seawell said the possibility of a strike has been greatly minimized as the GEO’s focus will be on the voting process over the next week or so.

“What we’ll do after that will depend on how the vote will turn out,” she said.

University officials are pleased with the direction of negotiations.

“We’re thrilled, and we really hope that we can move forward and work together the way that we did to achieve this agreement,” campus spokeswoman Robin Kaler said. “We’re very appreciative of the leadership of the GEO for their good work on this.”

This tentative agreement follows three months of negotiations and rallying on the GEO’s part, including “work-ins” since October for graduate and teaching assistants to do the same work they would usually do, only in public.

On Monday, the GEO held the first overnight work-in, “Unity at the Union,” which Seawell called an “act of symbolic civil disobedience” at the “center of campus community at this university.”

She said over 30 people stayed at the Union past midnight and more than a dozen stayed all night.

“The student union (officials) and campus police were incredibly accommodating and allowed us to stay in the space, so it was a good event,” Seawell said.

The GEO wanted as many people as possible to be at bargaining sessions Monday and Tuesday in order to “put pressure on the administration in the last few days,” said Juan Bernal, strike committee member and graduate employee, on Sunday.

But the GEO is glad to get some momentum back in its step, Seawell said.

“I think we’re definitely in a much better place than we were,” she said. “We have a real offer on the table for our members to consider.”