University of Michigan graduate student workers' union extends contract
Source: WSWS
Luke Galvin 9 hours ago
The contract covering 3,300 graduate student workers at the University of Michigan expired May 1. The Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), Local 3350 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), extended the old contract and announced no plans to strike for a new agreement.
The GEO represents over 3,300 workers, including graduate student instructors, graduate student staff assistants and graduate student research assistants across U-M’s three campuses in Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint. In addition to the GEO, the AFT has five other locals across the three U-M campuses and the university-owned Michigan Medicine healthcare complex in Ann Arbor.
Collectively, these locals represent 1,700 lecturers, 180 library workers and 1,900 staff members across the three campuses, as well as 4,700 healthcare professionals and 1,300 resident and fellow physicians at Michigan Medicine and over 160 tenure-track faculty members at U-M’s Flint campus.
Formal contract negotiations began on November 14, 2025 and have yet to reach an agreement. Under the 2023-2026 contract, if “a successor Agreement is not negotiated by 11:59 p.m. May 1, 2026, this Agreement shall continue in full force and effect unless thirty (30) days’ written notice of termination is given by the Union or the University.”
Grad student instructors and supporters march during the 2023 strike at the University of Michigan.
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