The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 7 With no agreement on contract, GSIs to hold walkout Remains of WALKOUT, From Page 1 support the GSIs and to support our working conditions here and to not cross the picket line," Woods said. "We teach a good portion of the courses and the classes here at the University and we hope that the undergraduates and the faculty will recognize the work we do for the University." Helen Ho, GEO president and a communications studies GSI, said students crossing the picket line will not be harassed. "Our picket is not meant to be a confrontational thing at all," Ho said in an interview after negotia- tions ended last night. Frumkin said University admin- istrators don't think a walkout will garner positive results. "We still absolutely believe that there'snothingproductive thatwill come from a disruption of teaching tomorrow and/or Wednesday," he said. "There's no need for it - the parties were making good prog- ress." He said it was "unfortunate" a deal couldn't be reached last night, but that "there comes a point where you just say, 'let's look at it with clear eyes tomorrow."' Ho saidshe agrees thatboth par- ties willbe hurt by a work stoppage but GEO felt it had no other option at this point in the negotiations. "We share the same interest in trying not to disrupt the Univer- sity's business as much as possible and to have classes as regularly scheduled as possible," Ho said. Frumkin and Woods both said their respective negotiating teams are willing to bargain during the walkout. "As long as the University wants to come back to the table we're ready to come back to the table," Woods said. They could meet at non-cam- pus buildings so GEO's negotiating team wouldn't have to cross the picket line to talk. "We've made ourselves available to meet with the union tomorrow, but I don't know if that's going to happen," Frumkin said. "It's really up to them." The two sides reached some agreements yesterday on issues including wage parity for "low- fraction GSIs" - those who work less than 20 hours a week. The University has also agreed to boost its health care coverage for low- fraction GSIs as well. The union, meanwhile, dropped demands yesterday on some issues like sum- mer bridge pay, eliminating the ten-term rule and benefits for GSIs who work springterm. The two sides agreed that this was good progress, but it's unclear at this point how many of those concessions will stick, because most were proposed as part of block deals meant to settle an agreement before a work stoppage took place. "That's all very significant movement, but we still, as I said, have a real difference in salary, we have a real difference with respect to one of the benefit issues having to do with the number of mental health visits, and we have a real issue of difference with respect to the amount of money that is paid to people who have less than a .25 appointment with respect to their tuition waiver," Frumkin said. Bonnie Halloran, president of the Lecturers' Employee Organi- zation, which represents non ten- ure-track faculty at the University, said officials in her union haven't told their members to participate in the walkout. "We have a no-strike platform in our contracts," she said. She said that LEO supports the efforts of GEO, though. "The University ought to be pay- ing their employees what it costs to live in Ann Arbor," Halloran said. To encourage its members to continue teaching their classes without crossing the picket lines, LEO rented two different locations close to campus where teachers can hold their classes. Some Uni- versity professors said they'll hold their classes in neutral locations like the Michigan Union. GEO is a member of the Ameri- can Federation of Teachers, an international union representing teachers, which is affiliated with the AFL-CIO labor union. Mark Gaffney, president of Michigan's AFL-CIO, said that while there are multiple AFL-CIO member unions on campus, it's unlikely those workers would par- ticipate in the walkout or refuse to cross a picket line. Since 1987, GEO has held similar one- or two-day walkouts during each of its previous contract nego- tiations, which take place every three years. "The fact that we have to walk out to get a contract seems like a likely possibility at the beginning of the cycle because that's what history says," Woods said. "I think every time we hope that the Uni- versity will settle with us in good faith at the negotiating table, but this time that didn't happen." Frumkin said that history can- not be used as a barometer to pre- dict how these negotiations will play out. "Each set of contract negotia- tions is different - there's no way to predict what it will take and how much time it will take and what processes it will take," Frum- kin said. During their negotiations in 2005, GEO held a one-day walkout and then went immediately back to the table to settle differences over childcare and anti-discrimi- nation language in the contract. The organization also had strong disagreements on salary increases and health care coverage - the same issues that have stalled cur- rent talks. The group reached a new con- tract with the University seven days after the walkout. - Daily News Editor Andy Krol contributed to this report. contractors in Iraq found DALLAS (AP) - The remains of two U.S. contractors kidnapped in Iraq more than a year ago have been recovered, the FBI said yester- day, weeks after families of several long-missing men gained hope that they might be found alive. Ronald Withrow of Roaring Springs, Texas, and John Roy Young of Kansas City, Mo., were among six Western contractors kidnapped sep- arately. The disappearances received new attention this month when the severed fingers of several men were sent to the U.S. military in Iraq. Several relatives had taken the discovery of the fingers as a hopeful sign, including the father of Jona- thon Cote, who remains missing. "We feelvery sad that this is how it turned out. We wish it turned out a better way," Francis Cote said from his home in Getzville, N.Y., near Buffalo. 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