Bargaining Headquarters

This is the go-to place for bargaining materials for PSU Unit A members.

PSU’s bargaining team has developed a transformative set of proposals to address a range of important issues, including:

• Our salary system…
• Workload / staffing
• Job security / protections against privatization
• Employee well-being (workplace climate, discrimination and discipline, respect at work)
• And more…

Become an informed union member and fight for the contract we deserve.

Important Dates

Bargaining Sessions

Thursday, July 18: 10am-12pm via ZoomThursday, August 1: 10am-12pm via ZoomThursday, August 1: 2pm-4pm via Zoom

Silent Bargaining Representatives

The PSU Bargaining Team wants YOU to join us at the bargaining table. Build our power and experience bargaining first-hand. Sign up to be a Silent Bargaining Representative!

Silent Bargaining Representatives (SBRs) are union members who silently represent PSU during negotiations. Any dues-paying member may be an SBR for one or more sessions. The purpose of SBRs is to: enhance transparency; provide the bargaining team with more perspectives and feedback; demonstrate our unity; and allow more first-hand accounts to reach our co-workers. SBRs are not merely observers, but are silent members of the union’s bargaining team.

Sign up to be a Silent Bargaining Representative:

• Amherst Members Sign Up Here
• Boston Members Sign Up Here

Official Bargaining Documents

PSU PROPOSALS
WAGES
1	Salary Schedule Proposal
2	Salaries–Salary Schedule Implementation
3	Salaries (Parameters/COLA)–Section 31.1 & 31.2
4	Salary Administration Program (SAP) (language cleanup)–Section 27
5	Bumping (language cleanup)–Section 13.6
6	Union Membership Data (language cleanup) –Section 2.9
7	Shift Differential for Nurses – Sideletter
WORKLOADS
8	Additional Compensation–Section 31.3
9	Excessive Workloads–Section 11.3
10	Comp Time–Section 18.2
11	On Call/Call Back–Section 18.3
12	Overtime/Comp Time Payout – Section 39.6
WELL-BEING
13	Paid Leave–Section 20
14	Sick Leave Bank–Appendix A
15	Flex Work Guidelines [Boston Campus] – Section 18.4
16	Workplace Climate Survey – Section 11.5
17	Family & Medical Leaves–Section 19.1
18	Multi-Union–Anti Privatization
19	Multi-Union–Child Care
20	Multi-Union–Campus Closure
21	Multi-Union–Eliminating Bias in Discipline – Article 8
22	Multi-Union–Air Quality

Guiding Documents, Presentations, Resources

Take Action

• #FairPay #FullStaffing zoom background
• AMHERST: click here to get involved in the campaign
• BOSTON: click here to get involved in the campaign

Wages

• PSU’s Raise-Less Pay Scale (how our salary scale works, and how it doesn’t)
• What is COLA–and why is it never enough?
• UMass Amherst $112 million surplus
• Bargaining Proposals Overview Slides
• Wages Contract Q&A Slides
• Workloads Contract Q&A Slides
• Well-Being Contract Q&A Slides

Give Feedback on Bargaining Proposals

Please attend one or more of the information sessions listed above!

Still have questions, reactions, or other thoughts to share? Please email us:

Amherst members: prostaff@umass.edu; Boston members: prostaff.union@umb.edu

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