Why, When, and How to File a Grievance By Heather Kamins As a PSU member, maybe you’ve heard of the grievance process but aren’t entirely sure how it works. Or maybe you’ve experienced something at work that feels off, but you’re not certain if you should file a grievance or how to do so. Fortunately, […]
Defend Every Worker: What PSU Is Doing to Protect Its Members from Federal Overreach
By Jon McGrath There’s no sugar-coating it: These are scary times for our professions. The federal government has committed itself to disrupting, inappropriately influencing, or flat-out eliminating higher-education programs that don’t fit a specific political view. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. After all, an admitted strategy of the current presidential administration has been to “flood […]
Pride—and a bit of pettiness—as a motivator
Why I started paying union dues By Alexis Ali I was blissfully naïve when I first became a part of PSU. Hired on full-time at UMass in the summer of 2020, Past-Alexis had a lot of other things to occupy her brain space than union activity. She felt secure in her job and was generally […]
How Reyes Drove Workers to Strike
A Journey Through Reyes’s Fraught Track Record of Union Negotiations By Daegan Miller The union was bargaining for transformative pay, full staffing, job security, protection from unfair and biased discipline, and better benefits, but contract negotiations were bogged down. Union members were getting restless. Management was dragging their heels, and their bargaining team seemed underprepared, […]
Alexis’s Top Three Spiciest Moments in Bargaining 2024–25
Bargaining is taking forever. Though it is surprisingly not the longest bargaining cycle on record, I know we’re all feeling it. The idea of just accepting management’s positions and moving on can sound appealing. I totally get it. I want my COLA adjustment (our annual cost-of-living adjustment, set by the governor), too. However, compromising now […]
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