# @michigandaily on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CzJW-b8LXCb
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/9667076-michigandaily-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-11-02T14:00:31.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Michigan Daily (@michigandaily) — https://gondola.cc/michigandaily

## Caption

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 have been won without their sacrifice.”

In an email to The Michigan Daily, University spokesperson Kim Broekhuizen wrote that the bonuses would be paid out to GSIs and GSSAs through the University’s payroll system and it is up to the individuals to decide what to do with the money.

“The agreed upon bonus will be paid directly to GSIs and GSSAs through the University payroll system,” Broekhuizen wrote. “As a reminder, there is nothing in the agreement between the University and GEO that limits or dictates what GSIs or GSSAs do with this money. This includes no contractual requirement to return the money to GEO to offset the cost of the strike, or for any other reason. It would not be appropriate to have such a provision in a collective bargaining agreement. GSIs and GSSAs are free to do whatever they would like to do with the bonus negotiated on their behalf.”

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✍️: Miles Anderson
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