Statements and press releases


  • Campus Equity Week Rally

    Calling All Workers & Students: What do tuition increases, health care cutbacks, and no job security have in common? Campus Equity Week RALLY FOR FAIR…

  • U releases premium recommendations

    The University’s committee on Health Ins. Premium Design (CHIPD) released their report and recommendations. Details about the report are available at: umich.edu/~hraa/chipd/index.htm The website contains…

  • GEO Parents Committee Meeting

    The GEO parents committee will be meeting this Tuesday at noon in the GEO office. COSPI will be the main agenda item. We’ll also be…

  • Rally on Wednesday!

    Calling all workers & students: What do tuition increases, health care cutbacks, and no job security have in common? Come rally for the fair treatment…

  • Boycott Coors

    Because of Coors’ long and continuing tradition of funding racist, anti-worker, anti-immigrant, anti-women, and anti-queer initiatives, the GEO Stewards’ Council urges GEO members and supporters…

  • Borders Inc settles unfair labor practices with union

    • illegally subcontracting the cleaning and maintenance work at its downtown Ann Arbor facility to an outside firm without prior notice or bargaining with the…

  • Nurses at Lenawee Health Alliance Win Health Insurance Case

    Okemos, MI – US District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled that Registered Nurses at Bixby Medical Center in Adrian and Herrick Memorial Hospital in…

  • As Drug Benefits Fall, Workers Need a Strategy

    New York Times October 5, 2003 By SANA SIWOLOP IT’S open enrollment season again for many of the 175 million or so American workers and…

  • Membership Meeting Next Week

    How are we going to fight to protect our contract? Over the past year, the University has launched three illegal and immoral attacks on the…

  • UM Health Services Makes $22.5 Million in 2003

    The UM reported a .5 million profit in its health services division for 2003 to the Regents. Read the University Record article by UMHS PR…

  • Update on summer health care benefits 2004

    I just talked to Benefits about the summer premiums. Yes, we are going to be charged for them. Here is the worst of it. They…

  • A Manifest Destiny for Labor

    A Manifest Destiny for Labor via CounterPunch “Since unions are supposed to be organizations of workers, we at CounterPunch thought the members might like the…

  • AGEL Conference

    The Alliance of Graduate Employee Locals (AGEL), which is made up of all the graduate employee unions affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT),…

  • Enroll for health insurance soon!

    If you don’t enroll for health coverage within 60 days of becoming eligible, you will NOT have coverage – enroll today! If you have questions…

  • UM Drops ball on health insurance

    Ann Arbor News LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Monday, September 22, 2003 U-M drops the ball on health insurance Two things are particularly disturbing about the…

  • U-M staff will share health cost In 2004

    U-M staff will share health cost In 2004, most employees will have to foot 5% of medical coverage cost in monthly payments Friday, September 12,…

  • Union Democracy

    Next meeting is Thursday, 29 May 2003, from 2:00-3:30pm at the GEO Office. This is the third meeting of an ad hoc committee established to…

  • Attend the RH librarian negotiations!

    Support your fellow graduate students. Attend the Residence Hall Librarian negotiations. Negotiations are open, so you are free to come and go. Wednesday, February 12…

  • GEO Needs You!

    Come to the Winter 2003 GEO Membership Meetings! ************************************************* Central Campus Thurs Feb 13, 7-8pm Anderson Room Michigan Union North Campus Wed Feb 12, 7-8pm…

  • GEO MASS MEMBERSHIP MEETING

    GEO will be holding a MASS MEMBERSHIP MEETING: Thursday, February 13th, 7-8 p.m. MI Union, Anderson Room ** EMERGENCY! ** The Administration has unilaterally reduced…

  • Membership Meeting, 2/13 7-8 PM

    Next Thursday, FEB 13, there will be a GEO Membership Meeting, 7-8 PM in the Michigan Union Anderson Room. More details to come at this…

  • Parents must act quickly to take advantage of new benefits

    Many people have been asking about the new childcare benefits.  The main concern regards the FAFSA:  according to the Office of Financial Aid’s web site,…