The University of Michigan's Board of Regents has requested court intervention in what is now a four-day strike by the university's Graduate Employee Organization, arguing the unionized graduate student instructors are legally required to return to the classroom.
The university's Board of Regents is seeking a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to end the Graduate Employee's Organization strike that began on Wednesday, arguing that the walkout in the middle of the semester is "jeopardizing a student’s ability to take final exams, complete necessary course work, graduate" and complete educational degrees.
The university argued in the legal claim filed Thursday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court that the GEO has breached its contract, which explicitly prohibits striking, and that the strike is illegal under Michigan law. The GEO acknowledges the illegality of the strike on its website and the breach of contract but says the UM is "highly unlikely to fire all of its GSIs and GSSAs because of how essential grad workers are to its day-to-day operations."
The GEO is "profoundly disappointed that the University of Michigan would take its workers to court rather than pay them a living wage," the union's President Jared Eno said in a statement.
"The University of Michigan has not negotiated with us in good faith, and after more than four months of bargaining, graduate workers feel we have no choice but to go on strike," Eno said. "Graduate workers care deeply...
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