FSU Bargaining Petition – please sign now!

4/1/2025

Dear Faculty and Librarians,

Please sign this fair bargaining petition that the FSU will be delivering to upper administration:  (contact the FSU office or the Core Bargaining Team for petition link information)

Found at the link and pasted below, the petition is a straightforward attempt to get the administration to bargain fairly, professionally, and competently – not a high bar, but one our administrators have thus far failed to meet.   Please sign at the above link.  We need to make our voices heard so we can get the contract we deserve.

FSU DEMANDS A FAIR CONTRACT NOW!

To: Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Provost Joseph Berger, Vice Chancellor Marie Bowen, and Vice Chancellor Kathleen Kirleis

We, the members of the Faculty Staff Union, DEMAND that you immediately direct your bargaining team to meaningfully engage with our proposals. We require an agreement that properly addresses the urgent needs of our members—the faculty and librarians whose essential work powers UMass Boston for our students and community. The most pressing needs include:

• Competitive, livable salaries for all faculty and librarians
• Full Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) raises for all faculty and librarians
• Retention and Longevity Raises
• An end to the Associate Lecturer Rank—Promote ALs to Lecturer
• Shorter time to promotion for NTT faculty 

Our contract expired on June 30, 2024—almost 9 months ago. Since bargaining began, Admin’s representatives have:

• Arrived late, ended early, and threatened to leave in session
• Come unprepared to bargaining
• Refused to respond to proposals
• Offered nothing to improve the lives of faculty and librarians, and
• Dragged out the process at every turn.

We demand that the Administration take our concerns—and the bargaining process itself—seriously and work with the FSU to reach an agreement that our members will be willing to ratify.