In labor news, graduate student instructors at the University of Michigan have gone on strike in part to protest the school’s safety plans around COVID-19, as well as the university’s ties to law enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

Meanwhile, University of Arizona employees have officially established a union, after months of denouncing the university’s reopening plan and following a series of furloughs and layoffs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The union has recruited over 200 members so far and will represent current and former U of A faculty, student workers and staff.