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 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!