The Graduate Employees’ Organization at the University of Michigan stands in deep solidarity with striking UAW members in the University of California system. Like UAW members, GEO members play a large part in instructing, mentoring, and assisting educational operations at our university. Like UAW members, 80% of graduate workers at UMich are rent-burdened, paying more than 30% of their monthly incomes on housing. We, too, know what it is like to struggle to make ends meet despite working for an employer with billions in the bank. Paying us poverty-level wages is a choice that our employers are making.
As we go into contract negotiations with Human Resources this week, we hold up the example of over 48,000 UC grad workers fighting for a living wage. You deserve a contract that affords you work with dignity. If you win, we win.
Solidarity from Michigan to California.
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