The GTFF stands in solidarity with striking graduate employees from the Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) at the University of Michigan (UM). GEO is on strike because of UM’s inability to appropriately and responsibly address COVID-19 health, safety, and financial concerns, in addition to their refusal to adopt GEO’s anti-policing demands, which include disarming and demilitarizing… Continue reading GEO Solidarity Statement
Month: September 2020
GTFF for Black Lives
The Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation (AFT Local 3544) reiterates our condemnation of the police murders of Black people and the violent repression of protests by police around the U.S. We are deeply saddened, disgusted, and enraged by yet another police murder of a young Black man: 18-year-old Deon Kay of Southeast, DC. On August 31st,… Continue reading GTFF for Black Lives