BARGAING UPDATE: Our bargaining team has been hard at work the past several weeks, drafting member-driven, new contract language in proposals on intellectual property, continuing status, Instructor II benefits, and compensation. The team came into the most recent session last Friday with our first and most important proposals, and left the table awash in the reality that we may be in for a fight.... click to read the full update
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Bargaining Update: THE GAMES BEGIN – WMU PIO
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Bargaining Update: THE GAMES BEGINBargaining, Contract / By robz / June 2, 2021 June 3, 2021Dear PIO Member,Our bargaining team has been hard at work the past several weeks, drafting member-driven, ne...Seriously, that surplus number eye popping. Is the administration’s negotiating team disputing those numbers?
I just read through the presentation. Excellent work! $1500 per credit hour minimum. YES. Long overdue pay for frontline workers who carry out the mission of the university. *And how the H-E-double-hockey-stick does WMU have a 63 million dollar surplus this year?*
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In case you missed it, Wednesday afternoon AFT Michigan held an unemployment workshop that focused on the specific issues arising at WMU and KVCC...
AFT Michigan Unemployment Workshop held Wednesday Afternoon. – WMU PIO
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AFT Michigan Unemployment Workshop held Wednesday Afternoon.General Update, Unemployment / By robz / May 19, 2021 May 19, 2021In case you missed it, Wednesday afternoon AFT Michigan held an unemployme... Please take a moment to read this message from our colleagues. Cathryn and Natalio's account mirrors what we've experienced so far in negotiating our new contract, and the concern is very real.
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From AAUP: Taking stock of WMU academic labor relations – WMU PIO
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From AAUP: Taking stock of WMU academic labor relationsBargaining, Contract / By robz / May 19, 2021 May 19, 2021a message from the WMU-AAUP President and Vice PresidentView the original post hereDear...While disappointed, I am never surprised. The administration will always ask those that give, to give just a little more, then treat any efforts to live to a collective agreement as hubris. Solidarity to all!
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We stand with our colleagues in the Teaching Assistants Union, these further cuts will hurt all of us #SolidarityNotAusterity
Solidarity, not Austerity! Help TAU stop the cuts!
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The graduate student workers of the Teaching Assistants Union (TAU) at Western Michigan University are concerned about the proposed 17% cut to the teaching assistant portion of the College of Arts and...