Graduate Assistants United approves strike authorization vote

Graduate assistants can now strike on or after Oct. 6.

Of the 88 percent of eligible dues-paying members who voted whether or not to give authorization to the union’s bargaining team to set a strike date if no significant progress is made in bargaining, 97 percent voted yes.

Kristi Brownfield, vice president of communications for the GAU, said this is a message to the university that contract negotiations have gone too…