The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com CONTRACT From Page 1A efforts on a few major issues like salary increases and health care benefits. "We are narrowing our priorities to our strike platform," she said. "The purpose of the strike platform is that it's a sign from our members that these are the issues that we are willing to walk out for. We won't concede those at the table." If a new contract agreement is not reached by March 17, GEO members will meet the following day to vote on whether to leave the negotiatingtable. The negotiatingteam would first reporton where the contract stands at that time. Union members would then vote on whether to consider striking. If a strike does take place, par- ticipating GSIs would stop their usual work for the University and instead form a picket line outside University buildings. "We ask GSIs to basically with- hold their labor from the Univer- sity, so not do any of the work they would typically do as a graduate student," Woods said. "So if they're teaching a section that day, they wouldn't teach their section. They wouldn't do grading, they wouldn't hold office hours, they wouldn't respond to e-mails." University officials said they remain confident that a strike can be avoided. "I remain hopeful that some- thing will get done," Frumkin said. Frumkin said that in past labor negotiations he has seen contracts extended, seen people ignore the contract deadline and keep negoti- ating and seen the talks go before an arbitrator. "There's a point where the two sides agree to bring in a third party," he said. "It's called an impasse procedure." In general, if an impasse is declared, athird party is brought in to mediate between the two sides to forge a deal deemed to be fair and avoid strike activities. "We have, in past negotiations, formally declared an impasse," said Patrick O'Mahen, a spokes- man for GEO and a GSI in the polit- ical science department. "We have brought in an outside mediator in the past." Frumkin acknowledged that third-party mediators had been brought in previously, but he said he doubted that they would be nec- essary in the current negotiations. Although GEO officials say they're frustrated with current negotiations, they hope to avoid an impasse procedure. "We want to get this contract settled without going to arbitra- tion," Woods said. "That is an option in all contract negotiations, but we would like the University to settle with us." GEO's latest salary proposal, made last month, called for a 9- percent salary increase for the first year oftheir new contractand infla- tionary adjustments the second and third years. The group is still awaiting the University's counter- offer on the major issues. "The ball's in their court in terms Monday, March 10, 2008 - 7A of wages and benefits right now," Woods said. 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