Apparently, the union busting fever that gripped Wisconsin and Ohio over the past year has spread to the University of Michigan, the first university to allow graduate students to organize into a union. The Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) has worked to ensure the right for Graduate Student Research Assistants (GSRAs) to simply vote on whether or not they want to unionize. The regents of the university support their right to vote, but the administration, headed by Mary Sue Coleman, do not.

The administration has waged an aggressive "no" campaign against allowing the GSRAs to vote on whether or not to organize.  In fact, a GSRA was fired from her position as a result of her involvement in union organizing. Not only is this illegal, it is simply wrong.

Go to http://www.umgeo.org/ and http://www.freep.com/article/20120118/NEWS06/201180372/University-of-Michigan-grad-student-says-she-was-fired-over-effort-to-unionize?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s  for more details about this situation.