labor negotiations

  1. September 10, 2020

    GEO rejects proposal; U-M adds detail about its position

    U-M has shared a more detailed response to the various requests made by the Graduate Employees’ Organization after a proposed agreement between the university and the union was rejected by GEO members.

  2. June 25, 2020

    Regents approve framework for union recognition

    U-M will no longer require a state-supervised election for new labor unions to be recognized, under a Board of Regents resolution. Instead, new labor unions will be recognized under a practice commonly known as “card check.”

  3. June 20, 2020

    U-M House Officers Association, Michigan Medicine ratify contract

    The U-M House Officers Association has ratified a three-year collective bargaining agreement with Michigan Medicine. The contract includes salary increases in each year, ranging from 2.4 to 3.25 percent.

  4. April 17, 2020

    GEO, U-M reach agreement on new three-year contract

    Members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization have voted to ratify a new three-year agreement with the university. The new contract takes effect May 1, when the current agreement expires.

  5. November 15, 2019

    Contract talks with university, GEO getting underway

    U-M and the Graduate Employees’ Organization, the union representing graduate student instructors and graduate student staff assistants, have begun negotiations.

  6. July 13, 2018

    Lecturers’ union ratifies new three-year contract with university

    Members of the Lecturers’ Employee Organization, which represents about 1,700 lecturers on all three U-M campuses, have ratified a new three-year contract with the university.

  7. May 7, 2018

    U-M expects to resume LEO negotiations in mid-May

    Contract talks between the University of Michigan and the Lecturers’ Employee Organization are expected to resume in mid-May. Negotiations began Oct. 27, 2017.