The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and our parent union, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) have released a resource for understanding your rights…

At GEO’s most recent GMM, the bargaining team–the group of GEO members who negotiates the contract on our behalf–responded to questions from the crowd and…

GEO held its first General Membership Meeting of the term on Thursday, January 19. Members heard updates from the GEO President and the Bargaining Team.…

There have been a lot of questions since the election about how to respond to micro/macro-aggressions during tense or hostile situations. The Multicultural Leadership Council…

At the first GMM of the Fall 2016 term the GEO Bargaining Committee proposed a hard hours cap proposal to be put to a discussion…

BARGAINING AND GMM UPDATES   The first General Membership Meeting (GMM) of the 2016-17 academic year was held Wednesday, Nov. 2. We discussed our platform…

We, the University of Michigan Graduate Employees Organization, AFT Local 3550, stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Lakota Nation, who have the legitimate authority…

Show your solidarity with the Flint Water Crisis by coming out to protest Gov.Snyder starting at 3:30pm on Tuesday outside of Hutchins Hall. There will…

GEO Members Past, Present and Future! Please take a moment to fill out this short (~10 min) survey about your Bargaining Priorities. It doesn’t matter…

Office Manager Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO), the union of graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants at the University of Michigan, is seeking a…

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Thank you so much for your support of Alex Chen in her grievance case. You have signed petitions, talked to your…

Click HERE to Download and Sign more #StandWithAlex Petitions Please RSVP to the #StandWithAlex Collective Action Event on Facebook. The action will happen on November…

As elected officers of the Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) at the University of Michigan, we stand in solidarity with the students, staff and workers protesting…

  Today is the We are Workers Day of Action. At yesterday’s first GMM of the Year, GEO kicked off bargaining and platform development by…

When: Wednesday October 14th from 6-7pm Where: Hutchins Hall, 625 S State Street, Room 250 (the Law School) Why: Platform Development Kick-Off Welcome Back GEO…

  Good news! It means you are in the bargaining unit for this year.   The University does not think that you have filled out…

Come celebrate the new year with a bash! Join fellow GEO members in merriment Friday, Sept. 18 @ 8pm for free food and beverages. @…

Learning your students’ names, designing lesson plans, figuring out how to bluff you way through a lecture…all while keeping up with your own work?? Its…

The Graduate Employees’ Organization (GEO) at the University of Michigan is hiring part-time member- organizers–10 or 20 hours per week–to work in Ann Arbor, MI.…

Grading got you down? Feel like you’re drowning in a sea of student emails? Shake off the end-of the-semester blues in solidarity at the last…

GEO signed their first contract in 1975, and we are celebrating our 40th birthday tomorrow March 20th by giving out free cupcakes and GEO swag…

Ohio’s fight to preserve public sector unions began in February of 2011 when a Republican Senator introduced Ohio’s Senate Bill 5. SB 5 was designed…