What happened with the GEO strike over the summer
GEO went on strike on March 27 which continued through Aug 25 when they reached an agreement with the University.
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GEO went on strike on March 27 which continued through Aug 25 when they reached an agreement with the University.
The GEO/AFT, which is politically dominated by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), used the university’s threat to fire strikers who fail to return to work by the start of the fall term on Monday, August 28, to browbeat the student workers into accepting the university-dictated sellout contract.
After U-M set a deadline of 4:59 p.m. Aug. 4 for GEO to accept the terms of its 5th contract proposal, GEO instead voted to respond by Aug. 10.
The University recently implemented a funding model for Ph.D. students known as the Rackham Plan, but this plan leaves out DMA students.
Six days before the Graduate Employees’ Organization began their strike against the University of Michigan, the Rackham Graduate School