March 19, 1999

U. of Michigan Teaching Assistants Walk Out to Protest Pace of Contract Talks

By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN

Hundreds of unionized graduate teaching assistants walked off their jobs at the University of Michigan last week to protest the slow pace of negotiations on a contract with the university.

The union's threat to begin a full-fledged, "open-ended" strike this week prompted the two sides to meet for a hastily called bargaining session. Afterward, both sides said that the session had marked the first time in four

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