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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Sunday, February 16, 1975
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MINI FOLK
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WITH
Sam Hinton
Michael Cooney
Joe Hickerson
Barry O'Neill
1421 Kill STREET
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THE WEEK IN REVIEW
Str ' theysdetermine the number of teach-
ing fellows and research and
AS THE Graduate Employes staff assistants not reporting for
Organization (GEO) strike work or the number of under-
moves into its second week, the graduates who have failed to at-
battle between the union and tend class because of the strike.
the University administration Not all graduate employes are
has become a war of attrition on strike. Reports from the
rather than a blitzkreig. Business and Natural Reourc-
And, time, it would seem, is es schools indicated "business
on the administration's side. as usual" was the norm. Sirmil-
The walkout, which began lost ary teaching fellows in m a a y
Tuesday, has not shut the Uni- literary college departments
versity down, as some fe~vent have been meeting their regu-
GEO supporters had promised. larly scheduled sectionseither
Many classes have been incon- on or off-campus.
I venienced, disrupted, and can-
celled outright as a resilt of
the GEO work stoppage.
But on the whole, the school
appears to be operating at a
near normal pace: executive de-
cisions are still being' made,
most classes taught by profes-
sors go on as scheduled, and
nearly all extra-curricular ac-
tivities associated with the Uni-
versity continue.
Before the strike began, GEO
spokesman David Gordon cited
undergraduate suport of the
walk out as crucial to 'ts suc-
cess. But that backing has not
been overwhelming, according
to reports compiled by the
Daily.
On Tuesday, undergraduates
seemed, by and large, willirg
to respect the GEO picket lines,}
which blocked entrances to all
the prospect of no pay, and the
likelihood of at least ancther
week of the same thing.
Also among undergraduates
the strongest, pro-strike senti-
ment emanates from the Resi-1
dential College, where students
voted to halt all classes until
the walk out ends. They voted
to donate Residential College
office space in East Quad to
GEO as a strike headquarters.
In scheduling the strike for
the middle of February, the
GEO may have made a stra-
tegic blunder. Because t est s,
counting a large portion of rinal
grades, are in the offing, stu-
dents have a positive motivation
for attending class.
FURTHER hurting the G E 0
in the long run has been
the lack of backing from Gther
unions at the University. Al-
though the powerful Teameers
Union has supported the strike,
much of the material usually
delivered by the truckers has
still arrived because supervis-
ory personnel picked up t he
slack, according to GEO lead-
ers.
Neither the American Feder-
ation of State, County, and
Municipal Employes union
members nor the clericals have
as groups come to the aid of
GEO. Some of these employes
have, nonetheless, engaged in
informal work slowdowns.
But the longer the strike gtes
on, the better the University ad-
ministration's bargaining poc i-
tion should become. That's due
to the economics of the situa-
tion.
The striking graduate employ-
es will receive no salaries and
the union has virtually no funds.
Within a short time, simple
mathematics dictates, that the
strikers will be-in a word-
broke.
O0KING BACK
At the same time, the Uni- feelings toward the University
versity can continue to function administration rather th n the
without the services provided GEO - a much less visible and
by the graduate workers unless
pressure is applied from outside
sources.
Most likely that -proldiag
would come from parents of un-
dergraduates whose classes
have been cancelled because of
the strike. The parents, angry
at paying high tuition bills while
seeing their children get norhing
in return, would direct their ill
approachable target.
But that is a storm the Uni-
versity could weather.
Right now, however, GEO and
its strike are both running pri-
marily on human energy, com-
mitment and direction. Those
are sometimes fragile qualities
that wane quickly as time
passes.
-GORDON ATCHE3ON
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Daily Classifieds
THUS EVEN AFTER five
days of picket lines and
protest, it remains difficult to
gauge exactly how much sup-
port GEO and in particulir the
strike itself has drawn from1
the academic community.
Neither the union nor the ad-
ministration has been able toj
major buildings on central cam-
pus. Attendance was down by
about half.
A S THE WEEK wore on, how-
ever, it appeared that more
and more students returned to
their classes - feeling the pres-
sure of upcoming miderm
exams and research papers.
On Friday about 2,500 !ieople
joined in a pro-strike rally -
one of the largest campus gath-
erings for something other than
football or streaking since tte
legendary Black Action Move-
ment (BAM) - but that alone is
an accurate barometer of very
little.
To be sure in some quarters
the commitment runs high.
Those graduate employes -
probably in excess of 800 -- phy-
sically walking the picket lines
remain undeterred by the cold,
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SOME OF THE 2,500 GEO supporters who marched Friday
to the Administration Building. Meanwhile, negotiations
between the University and union representatives remained
deadlocked over economic issues. The union has asked for
salary and other increases amounting to 20 per cent of the
average teaching fellows $3,000 income. The administration
has offered a 12 per cent hike spread over eight months.
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