The longest strike by University of Michigan graduate student instructors is over. The strike ended Friday, three days before UM's 2023-24 school year begins on Monday after 97% of the university's Graduate Employees Organization union, which represents 2,300 graduate student instructors and graduate assistants, voted over three days to ratify a new, three-year contract. The union announced the vote early Friday on social media, saying the contract "guarantees a 20-80% raise for incoming grad workers and a living wage for most PhDs, with wins across a host of issues, from trans & parental care to abolition and harassment protections."
