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Only two months remain until the contract expires between the University of Michigan and its lecturers. Negotiations began in January, and, last week, the Lecturers Employee Organization members submitted a petition to reinforce their position.
Ian Robinson is a lecturer and President of the Organization.
“We hope that we can wrap up bargaining, and I believe this is the goal of the administration as well, by the end of April. We’ve always gone past April in the past, so it’ll be a great new thing if we’re actually able to resolve this by the end of April this time around.”