March is Union Month at UMB! – Call to Action

2/25/2025

Dear FSU Members,

March is “Union Month” at UMass Boston!  Please post the attached on your office door!   As you will see from the second page, we are asking union members from FSU, CSU, PSU, and GEO to show up at the start of a bargaining session in March for 15-20 minutes to support our bargaining teams as they sit down with the Administration.   We will have signs as well as drinks and snacks!   If you can, please turn out for one or more of the following bargaining sessions.   Support FSU as well as our staff and graduate employees union in March!

Faculty Staff Union Bargaining  -- Wednesday, March 5, 9:15-9:45am -- Outside Room 2003  in the ISC

Professional Staff Union Bargaining -- Friday, March 14, 12-12:30pm -- Outside Room 3540 in the Campus Center

Classified Staff Union Bargaining -- Thursday, March 27, 2-2:30pm -- Outside Room 3300 in the ISC

In solidarity, 

The FSU Core Bargaining Team 

Caroline Coscia, Senior Lecturer II, Political Science 

Ellen Frank, Senior Lecturer II, Economics 

Maria Hegbloom, MTA Field Representative 

Jessica Holden, Librarian IV, Healey Library 

Keith Jones, Lecturer, Africana Studies 

Lorenzo Nencioli, FSU Senior Staff Member 

Jason Rodriquez, Associate Professor, Sociology 

Heike Schotten, Professor, Political Science 

Steve Striffler, Professor, Labor Studies