GEO Stewards Pass Resolution in Support of AAUP at EMU

Full text of the resolution:

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) has been negotiating with the Administration of EMU for a new collective bargaining contract.  After the Administration walked out of negotiations at ten o’clock the night before classes started, the AAUP called a strike and has not taught for the first week of classes.   Among the AAUP’s largest concerns are the safety of their classrooms and role in shared governance in addition to their demands for wages and benefits. 

 

Understanding that a threat to one of our unions is a threat to all of our unions, and with the support and encouragement of the EMU-Federation of Teachers, Local 9102 AFT/AFL-CIO, we the Stewards Council of the Graduate Employees Organization, Local 3550 AFT/AFL-CIO, express our solidarity with and support of the AAUP in their struggle with the EMU Administration.  As an expression of that support we commit to:

 

• Inform all of our fellow grad students that the AAUP is on strike.
• Work to make sure that no grad students at the University of Michigan cross the picket line nor take any appointments that are struck work by the AAUP
• Support the AAUP by asking GEO members to join the AAUP picket lines.

 

Additionally, we call upon the Administration of EMU to fulfill its responsibility to the students at EMU and the citizens of the State of Michigan and to negotiate in good faith with the AAUP.

 

Furthermore, we hope this provides an occasion for all academic labor—tenure track, non-tenure track and graduate employees—in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area and the state of Michigan to work more closely together.

For daily updates, visit the EMU AAUP website here.