Category: Editorial
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UofM GEO ON STRIKE, DAY 10: updates and memes
1) A judge denied the University’s request for an injunction. Here’s a report from Michigan Radio. Will this force the University to recognize the necessity of good-faith negotiating? We’ll see. I’m hearing rumors of actions suggesting that bad-faith is still the name of the game (eg, telling department heads to plan for the strike to…
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UofM GEO ON STRIKE, DAY 9, part 2: the Rutgers strike, the GEO strike and an update from the injunction hearing
A few more updates while the injunction hearing is in progress (+ a disturbing moment from the hearing)
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UofM GEO ON STRIKE, DAY 7: Bad-Faith Arrogance, and Disability
A quick update + (finally) my call for a Neurodiversity Constellation Center
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UofM GEO ON STRIKE, DAY 6: Disability
We’ve got problems with accommodations at this University, and we’ve had enough.
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UofM GEO ON STRIKE, Day 3: Medical Costs
I’m on strike because my health has suffered tremendously in many different ways, most significantly from a lack of access to necessary dental care. It never had to be like this.
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UofM GEO ON STRIKE, Day 2: The figures
Here’re some hard data that show the growing disparity of our situation as graduate students at the University of Michigan
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UofM GEO ON STRIKE, Day 1: The Problem
The graduate students at the University of Michigan are on strike for a living wage. In support of the strike from across the country, I’m sharing my experiences of poverty at UofM over the last eight years.