Graduate Student Research Assistants (GSRAs) at the University of
Michigan continue their effort to restore their collective bargaining
rights even as the Attorney General attempts to delay or prevent a union
election by filing a motion to intervene at the Michigan Employment
Relations Commission (MERC).
MERC will make a decision on GSRAs’ request for a union election at
their meeting on December 13.
GEO strongly believes that the decision to form a union should be free
from interference. “I think GSRAs have a right to make
this decision for themselves, without interference from outside
parties,†stated GSRA Christie Toth.
The Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO/AFT/AFL-CIO) is the trade union
representing Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) and Graduate Student
Staff Assistants (GSSAs) at the University of Michigan. Graduate
employees founded GEO in 1970, making GEO one of the oldest graduate
employee unions in the United States.
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