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The Graduate Employees Organization (GEO) is the labor union that represents GSIs (Graduate Student Instructors) and GSSAs (Graduate Student Staff Assistants) at the University of Michigan. GEO is Local 3550 of the American Federation of Teachers, and is one of the oldest graduate student employee unions in the US.

Their website is http://www.umgeo.org/ .

The GEO has staged walkout strikes as a bargaining tactic with the University administration. They reached an agreement in 2008 without going on strike, but walked off the job for one day in 2005.

[edit] In the news

• GSIs Walk Out, Michigan Daily, March 2005

Resounding chants of “No contract — no work, no peace” could be heard all over central campus yesterday as members of the Graduate Employees’ Organization staged a one-day walkout in protest of the University and its alleged lack of cooperation in negotiations.

[edit] News references

• GEO stories on AnnArbor.com
• GEO stories in the Ann Arbor Chronicle[[Category: Zip code {{{zip}}} in the news]]