Bargaining Central 2024–2025

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.

PSU 10:1 Network

PSU is launching a communication tree to foster member-to-member communication across our entire union. Each PSU Delegate and Action Communicator takes responsibility for communicating with 10 co-workers. Templates and contact lists will be provided.

Important Dates

Upcoming Bargaining Sessions

Wednesday, June 4: 9am-11am via Zoom

Wednesday, June 11: 10am-12pm on the Amherst campus (with hybrid Zoom option)

Wednesday, June 11: 1pm-3pm on the Amherst campus (with hybrid Zoom option)

Friday, June 27: 10am-12pm at the UMass President’s office (with hybrid Zoom option

Friday, June 27: 1pm-3pm at the UMass President’s office (with hybrid Zoom option)

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	Wage Scale, Longevity, Educational Attainment Bonus, Promotions and Transfers
2	Salaries (Parameters/COLA) – Section 31.1 & 31.2
3	Salary Administration Program (SAP) (language cleanup) – Section 27
4	Bumping (language cleanup) – Section 13.6
5	On Call/Call Back – Section 18.3
6	Shift Differential for Nurses – Sideletter
7	Union Membership Data (language cleanup) – Section 2.9
WORKLOADS
1	Excessive Workloads & Workload Coverage Plans – Section 11.3
2	Comp Time – Section 18.2
3	Overtime/Comp Time Payout – Section 39.6
4	Additional Compensation – Section 31.3
5	Generative Artificial Intelligence – Section 11.5
WELL-BEING
1	Sick Leave Bank – Appendix A
2	Family & Medical Leaves – Section 19.1
3	Paid Leave – Section 20
4	Multi-Union – Anti-Privatization – Article 28
5	Flex Work Guidelines [Boston Campus] – Section 18.4
6	Multi-Union – Air Quality – Section 16.7
7	Workplace Climate Survey – Section 11.5
8	Multi-Union – Eliminating Bias in Discipline – Article 8
9	Childcare and Elder Care Assistance Fund
10	Supporting Immigrant Members
11	Resisting Hate, Protecting the Community
MULTI-UNION
1	Multi-Union – Childcare Center [Amherst]
2	Multi-Union – Campus Closures
3	Muli-Union – Green Transportation [Amherst]
4	Multi-Union – Towards a Debt-Free UMass

MANAGEMENT PROPOSALS
1	Management – Wage Parameters – Section 31.1
2	Management – Election of Remedies – Section 7.4
3	Management – Ending Grievability of Discrimination and Harrassment – Section 6
4	Management – Weather and Remote Operations – Sections 18.5 & 39.13
5	Management – Transportation and Parking [Boston]
7	Management – Details on January 2027 Replacement of Parameters with Merit Pay – Section 31.2
8	Management – Reduction of Internal Hiring Preference for PSU Members – Section 14.4
9	Management – Employee Evaluations
10	Management – Elimination of Vacation Time Rollover [Amherst only]
11	Management – Grievance Procedure Overhaul

Guiding Documents, Presentations, Resources

Take Action

• PSU Bargaining Zoom Background (for use with Zoom or MS Teams video)
• 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
• Presentation to Management: Costing of PSU Wage Scale

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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