In a huge culmination of the Week of Grad Labor Visibility, hundreds of grad workers and dozens of allies turned out for open bargaining and called for U-M to seriously engage with grad workers' needs. HR asserted without evidence that paying grad workers a living wage is "infeasible," and argued that U-M's system for addressing harassment and discrimination had been fixed. In the afternoon, a panel of fellow U-M workers discussed how they won better contracts when union members took mass collective action. Attend the General Membership Meeting on Feb 21 (bit.ly/GEOEvents) to decide how we're going to escalate and win!