Citing a lack of progress and the union’s decision to meet for only two additional days of bargaining this month, the University of Michigan’s negotiating team has delivered to the Graduate Employees’ Organization a comprehensive package in response to all outstanding issues.
The package, delivered May 12, includes the university’s increased compensation offer, as well as offers for all other articles and memoranda of understanding left unsettled after nearly six months of contract negotiations with the union, which represents approximately 2,300 graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants.
The university’s latest pay proposal — the fourth since bargaining began — would provide GEO members on the Ann Arbor campus 12.5% in total raises over the next three years — 5%, 4% and 3.5%, respectively. GEO members on the Dearborn and Flint campuses would receive 6.75% in total raises over the same period.
U-M negotiators informed the union that without “substantial movement” from GEO on most outstanding issues by the next scheduled bargaining session May 16, the university will petition the Michigan Employment Relations Commission to engage in the “fact finding” process.
When GEO received the university’s package of proposals, university officials said, union representatives informed the adminstration they would not be able to respond in full by May 16 and offered to meet for an additional bargaining day May 31.
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