Fearing a merger of the movement of students against war and genocide with workers’ struggles, the U-M lecturers’ union leadership defied a strike authorization vote and hurriedly signed a tentative agreement that fails to meet the workers’ demands.
Voting begins this week on a tentative contract agreement with lecturers at all three University of Michigan campuses. The proposed four-year deal, reached on Friday, averts a strike by the Lecturers’ Employee Organization (LEO) that could have upended final grades for students. The union, which represents about 1,800 non-tenure-track faculty across the university’s three campuses, […] The post U of M lecturers to vote on tentative contract deal appeared first on Michigan Advance.
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Despite the growing lack of faith in the administration, as well as the increased tension and division on campus, the University has not strayed irreversibly off the right track.
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