The Graduate Employees’ Organization of the University of Michigan (AFT Local 3550) stands in solidarity with workers and students of New College of Florida against Governor Ron DeSantis’s brazen war on public higher education. DeSantis’ anti-Black, anti-queer, and anti-worker agenda
Press Release: GEO Members fill the Regents’ Meeting; call on AHR to continue bargaining
GEO Members fill the Regents’ Meeting; call on AHR to continue bargaining December 8, 2022 Over 30 members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO – AFT Local 3550) packed the University of Michigan Regents’ Meeting on December 8 to deliver
Press Release: U-M Refuses to Meet with Grad Workers’ Union
December 2, 2022 U-M Refuses to Meet with Grad Workers’ Union In an unfortunate setback in contract negotiations between U-M Academic Human Resources (AHR) and Graduate Employees’ Organization (AFT Local 3550), U-M negotiators declined to meet with GEO representatives in
Press Release: Hundreds of Graduate Workers at U-M Rally for a Living Wage, Work with Dignity
November 17, 2022Hundreds of Graduate Workers at U-M Rally for a Living Wage, Work with Dignity Hundreds of graduate workers at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) will rally for a living wage on Thursday November 17 at 9 AM
GEO Statement following Work Stoppage Ballot Results: Membership Authorizes Walk-Out over Pandemic and Policing Demands
September 7, 2020 — This past weekend, members of GEO’s bargaining unit – currently employed Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) and Graduate Student Staff Assistants (GSSAs) – voted overwhelmingly to authorize GEO leadership to call a strike. 79 percent of voters