"University of Michigan Graduate Students Strike for Better Pay and Contract"

Graduate students at the University of Michigan have gone on an illegal strike after five months of negotiations with university administrators over pay and other benefits. The Graduate Employees' Organization union, which represents about 2,300 graduate student instructors and staff assistants, voted to authorize a strike last week. The university filed an unfair labor practice charge against GEO with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission on Wednesday, asking the commission to order the GEO to stop unlawfully striking, university spokesman Rick Fitzgerald said.