The contract is signed and the union members have secured the fair terms they fought for. This outcome happened because students refused to stay silent while workers were treated unfairly. Keep checking the union updates to ensure these terms are upheld in the coming semesters.
December 5, 2018
Final supporters
We the students and community of Hamilton College stand with the members of the SEIU 200 union (Facilities Management) in their negotiations for fair working conditions and equitable pay. Facilities Management employees are hardworking members of the Hamilton College community, making our campus a better place to live for everybody. The administration has failed to negotiate with the workers of facilities management in good faith, and for months facilities management employees have been working without a collective bargaining agreement. However, with the backing of the student body we have the power to even the playing field of their negotiations. By signing this petition, you are taking a stand for every member of our Hamilton community to be treated with dignity and given the working conditions they deserve.
These are some of the requests being made by SEIU :
- Disability benefits: Currently, members of the union have no access to any insurance in the event they experience an unexpected illness or injury
- Improved Job training and posting: By improving the apprenticeship program provided to workers and posting when new jobs become available, there is increased upward mobility for facilities management workers.
- Limiting manipulation of personnel files: Currently, management can put any information into an employee’s personnel file without consulting a union representative, a system that has been abused to put unfair and mischaracterized information in employee’s personnel file. By requiring union representatives to be copied on all correspondence put in an employee’s file, this manipulation of the system will end.
- Limited Subcontracting: Limiting the use of subcontracting by first offering this work to full time employees.
Updates
November 24, 2018
The administration is still ignoring our demands but they are definitely watching these numbers climb. Send a text to your three closest friends right now and tell them why the treatment of our campus staff is nonnegotiable.
November 24, 2018
We hit our first major milestone and the administration is starting to take notice of our collective demand for fair contracts. Post this link on your Facebook feed right now to keep the pressure on them. Send an email to your student representative today and tell them why you support our facilities team.
Reached 100 supporters
November 24, 2018
9 Comments
Hamilton 2017 Maintenance workers deserve a fair and generous contract! Without them Hamilton College would be an unlivable hellhole!
It’s wack that they have to fight the college on this. I’d be much more likely to donate in the future if I knew that the college was using some of that money for fair wages and working conditions. Otherwise why am I giving Hamilton money?
Support collective action- I’m only at Hamilton College thanks to the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, Floorlayers Local 2168.
I find it disappointing and repulsive that Hamilton College has not successfully facilitated fair contract conditions for the wonderful community members at facilities management.
The people who clean our dorms and shovel the snow do way more for this school than the admin gives them credit for. Treat them with some basic respect already!
make it better now!!!!!
Fair contracts for all
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The contract is signed and the union members have secured the fair terms they fought for. This outcome happened because students refused to stay silent while workers were treated unfairly. Keep checking the union updates to ensure these terms are upheld in the coming semesters.
December 5, 2018
Final supporters
We the students and community of Hamilton College stand with the members of the SEIU 200 union (Facilities Management) in their negotiations for fair working conditions and equitable pay. Facilities Management employees are hardworking members of the Hamilton College community, making our campus a better place to live for everybody. The administration has failed to negotiate with the workers of facilities management in good faith, and for months facilities management employees have been working without a collective bargaining agreement. However, with the backing of the student body we have the power to even the playing field of their negotiations. By signing this petition, you are taking a stand for every member of our Hamilton community to be treated with dignity and given the working conditions they deserve.
These are some of the requests being made by SEIU :
- Disability benefits: Currently, members of the union have no access to any insurance in the event they experience an unexpected illness or injury
- Improved Job training and posting: By improving the apprenticeship program provided to workers and posting when new jobs become available, there is increased upward mobility for facilities management workers.
- Limiting manipulation of personnel files: Currently, management can put any information into an employee’s personnel file without consulting a union representative, a system that has been abused to put unfair and mischaracterized information in employee’s personnel file. By requiring union representatives to be copied on all correspondence put in an employee’s file, this manipulation of the system will end.
- Limited Subcontracting: Limiting the use of subcontracting by first offering this work to full time employees.
Updates
November 24, 2018
The administration is still ignoring our demands but they are definitely watching these numbers climb. Send a text to your three closest friends right now and tell them why the treatment of our campus staff is nonnegotiable.
November 24, 2018
We hit our first major milestone and the administration is starting to take notice of our collective demand for fair contracts. Post this link on your Facebook feed right now to keep the pressure on them. Send an email to your student representative today and tell them why you support our facilities team.
Reached 100 supporters
November 24, 2018
9 Comments
Thank you all the custodians and FM staff who work so hard to keep our campus beautiful, clean, and functioning! You guys put in so much hard work and deserve to be treated fairly. Hamilton needs to acknowledge these concerns and arrive at a compromise!!
Hamilton 2017 Maintenance workers deserve a fair and generous contract! Without them Hamilton College would be an unlivable hellhole!
It’s wack that they have to fight the college on this. I’d be much more likely to donate in the future if I knew that the college was using some of that money for fair wages and working conditions. Otherwise why am I giving Hamilton money?
Support collective action- I’m only at Hamilton College thanks to the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, Floorlayers Local 2168.
I find it disappointing and repulsive that Hamilton College has not successfully facilitated fair contract conditions for the wonderful community members at facilities management.
The people who clean our dorms and shovel the snow do way more for this school than the admin gives them credit for. Treat them with some basic respect already!
make it better now!!!!!
Fair contracts for all
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Thank you all the custodians and FM staff who work so hard to keep our campus beautiful, clean, and functioning! You guys put in so much hard work and deserve to be treated fairly. Hamilton needs to acknowledge these concerns and arrive at a compromise!!