The Graduate Employees’ Organization created a solidarity fund to aid Graduate Student Instructors and Graduate Student Staff Assistants who are still feeling the financial effects of the winter semester strike. During the months-long negotiations between GEO and the University of Michigan, striking GEO members did not receive paychecks. Under the terms of the newly signed contract between GEO and the University, GSIs and GSSAs who are working in the fall 2023 semester will receive a $1,000 bonus from the University sometime during the fall. In an announcement via an Instagram post GEO asked members to donate what they can of their bonuses to redistribute pay among workers who helped bargain a new contract during the winter semester strike. “Bonuses and other funds in the Solidarity Fund will be redistributed to workers who are still feeling the effects of losing a month of pay in the course of our fight for affordability and dignity,” the post read. “Our historic contract couldn’t...