ANN ARBOR, MI – More than 900 graduate researchers are seeking membership in the Graduate Employees’ Organization at the University of Michigan, the union announced Monday.
The nearly 1,000 researchers as of Aug. 18 signed unionization cards pledging support for researchers to join the union, the union stated.
The union representing graduate student instructors and staff assistants must file for an election this fall with this Michigan Employment Relations Commission, which would vote to add the researchers to the union’s bargaining organization…