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UMass Unions United

UMass Unions United

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Started by Ferd Wulkan 11 years, 10 months ago
The coalition of UMass Amherst labor unions is actively promoting a vision for our state's university education system that respects both the individual student's experience and the collective work we all do to support and shape these experiences. On the other hand, the administration is jumping on the national race-to-the-bottom bandwagon with proposals to curtail worker empowerment, reduce benefits for new hires, and extract more and more savings out of our unionized staff, all the while increasing pay to chancellors and other high-level positions.

We, the undersigned members of all the UMass Amherst labor unions, stand in solidarity against these proposals, and say with a unified voice: We will concede none of the benefits we have earned over the course of our years of struggle!

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September 12, 2014

Reaching this point in our campaign has been exhausting but deeply validating. Seeing the collective frustration from across campus confirms that we are fighting for something that actually matters.

Reached 100 supporters

September 12, 2014

7 Comments

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David Bell
11 years ago Featured

DO NOT CUT OUR BENEFITS. We work hard and deserve to keep what we have earned.

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Sarah Foster
11 years ago Featured

UMass is nothing without its staff. Quit trying to cut corners on the people who make this place work.

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Mike Chopra
11 years ago Featured

Ridiculous to see admin getting raises while the people who actually run the campus get squeezed. Enough is enough.

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Jessica Snyder
11 years ago Featured

been here 10 years and its just getting worse. show some respect for the staff for once.

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Tom Schmidt
11 years ago Featured

The gap between the chancellors pay and the regular workers is insane. stop the greed.

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Linda Stokes
11 years ago Featured

we are the backbone of this uni. listen to us before everyone quits.

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Tom Maresca
11 years ago

This list: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/19/education/study-links-growth-in-student-debt-to-pay-for-university-presidents.html?_r=0 Other Link: http://www.ips-dc.org/one_percent_universities/

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