The union bureaucracies are working hand in glove with the Biden administration and the Michigan Democratic Party to end strikes that are in progress and block new walkouts.
The grad student instructors have waged a courageous struggle and can defeat the strikebreaking of the university and its corporate and government backers. This requires the development of a rank-and-file committee independent of the AFT apparatus and its agents in the GEO leadership.
The GEO leadership has sought to conceal the direct role of the Democratic Party in U-M’s attack on the grad student instructors the Democrats dominate the U-M Board of Regents and control the Michigan statehouse.