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
2b. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Number of Succeeding Contracts:
2c. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Number of Succeeding Contracts:
2d. Description of Faculty Bargaining Unit(s) – Size and Composition
Number of Succeeding Contracts:
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.):