Academy for Academic Personnel Administration

Fall 2003

Round Table Report

 

1.  Institution Information

 

Name of Institution/System: The University of Michigan

 

Name of Individual Responding: Dan Gamble

 

Title of Individual Responding: Associate Director, Academic Human Resources

 

2a. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition

 

Graduate Employees Organization (GEO), 1,800 Graduate Student Instructors and Graduate Student Staff Assistants.

 

 

 

 

Bargaining Agent: AFT

 

Date of First Contract:  March 14, 1975

 

Number of Succeeding Contracts:  12

 

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3. Activity Report (e.g., status of current agreement or negotiations, details of last contract settlement, etc.):

 

Negotiations to accrete eleven Residence Hall Librarians in to the University agreement with the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) concluded on April 3, 2003. The Librarians, all graduate students in the School of Information, coordinate the libraries at the individual residence halls and were voluntarily recognized as part of GEO by the University in September 2002. The negotiations to determine the terms and conditions of their employment began on January 15, 2003, included 17 sessions, and culminated with the assistance of a State Mediator.

 

 

 

4. Special or noteworthy happenings (e.g., relevant arbitration or court decisions, organizing campaigns, labor agency decisions, etc.)

 

     

 

 

 

 

5.  Special happenings related to fiscal issues (e.g., salary reductions, health and dental insurance costs, reductions in force, early retirement programs, program consolidation or elimination, etc.):