Ann Arbor — More than 2,000 graduate student instructors and staff assistants on strike at the University of Michigan are vowing to appeal a decision by an administrative law judge last week that the union committed an unfair labor practice by walking off the job last month.
David Peltz, an administrative law judge for the Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules, made the decision on Friday after the university filed unfair labor practice charges on March 29.
Peltz ruled that the Graduate Employee Organization breached its duty to bargain in good faith by violating the no-strike provision of its collective bargaining agreement currently in place with the university. He also recommended that all GEO officers, agents and representatives cease and desist from the strike, which is one of the longest by graduate student instructors to date at UM.
"The undisputed facts establish that the GEO engaged in conduct wholly inconsistent with its obligations under the contract," Peltz said in his decision. "...The GEO is contractually obligated to refrain from causing, instigating, supporting or encouraging any 'concerted interference with the operation of the University' including the 'failure, in whole or part, to fully, faithfully, and properly perform the duties of employment.'"
Peltz's decision can be appealed by the GEO and is a recommendation to the Michigan Employment Relations Commission for its final decision, the university said in a news release on Monday. The...
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