On September 13, 2013, the first designated payday of the fall session, 531 graduate student employees were not paid.  By September 21, 2013, twenty-one days following the start of the standard fall session graduate student employee work contract, at least 517 graduate student employees remained unpaid.  The response of UMass-Amherst administration up to this point of making emergency loans and emergency salary payments available has been inadequate and burdensome for graduate student employees.