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The Faculty Staff Union of UMass Boston Quinn/2/81A 100 Morrissey Blvd Boston MA 02125 617-287-6295 | fsu@umb.edu 

The Faculty Staff Union of UMass Boston

Welcome to the FSU Site. Here you will find important information about our union, including the contract, a list of officers and  Executive Committee members, the FSU office telephone number and our address. You will also find information about current issues.   Please be sure to check the site regularly for the most recent issues facing our unit. We also have provided links to related sites that   you may find useful for union issues and for professional activities.



Caroline Coscia, President 

fsu@umb.edu

 

The Point: Bots

7/13/2020

Greetings, Colleagues.

Whose Streets? Our Streets!

If you’ve been to a protest march or rally in the modern era no doubt you have heard the chant “Whose Streets? Our Streets!”  Maybe you have even shouted along with it. 

“Whose Streets? Our Streets!” is always an elegant performance —a bait-and-switch that seems to ask a knotty rhetorical question only to answer it with the fact of its own iteration.  But what if we apply “Whose Streets?” to our own campus?

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Bargaining Today!

7/10/2020

Dear FSU Members,

We are bargaining today from 12-2pm.   Although we have reached the 30-person “observer” limit, you can still join us in the caucus starting at 11:30 (contact the FSU office for Zoom meeting info) or follow our Communications Director on twitter (@melnickjeffrey1) – he will be livetweeting with the hashtags #umbfsu and #fsuexpanded.      

Steve Striffler

FSU President

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REMINDER: NTT faculty zoom meeting, tomorrow (Friday) 3-5pm

7/9/2020

Dear NTT faculty colleagues,

Please join us for an NTT Faculty Meeting, tomorrow (Friday), July 10, from 3-5pm, via Zoom (contact the FSU office for Zoom meeting info).

On our agenda will be the non-reappointment letters sent to over 300 of our UMB NTT colleagues, and our union response, as well as an update from the upcoming bargaining efforts with Administration (see here for more info). 

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Our International Students & the ICE Directive

7/8/2020

Dear FSU Members,

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Register for FSU Friday Bargaining Session

7/8/20

Dear FSU Member,

As you know, the FSU recently won an agreement to allow up to 30 FSU members to attend bargaining sessions.  This will be our first session and it is important that we have a full contingent of 30 members. 

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NTT faculty zoom meeting, this Friday 3-5pm

7/7/2020

Dear NTT faculty colleagues,

Please join us for an NTT Faculty Meeting, this Friday, July 10, from 3-5pm, via Zoom (info to be sent later).

On our agenda will be the non-reappointment letters sent to over 300 of our UMB NTT colleagues, and our union response, as well as an update from the upcoming bargaining efforts with Administration (see here for more info). 

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Invitation to FSU Bargaining- Friday, July 10th, 12-2

7/6/2020

Dear FSU Members,

We invite you to participate in bargaining on Friday, July 10th, from 12 to 2pm.  (please contact the FSU office if you are interested and would like to register)  

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The Point: Movement Politics

7/6/2020

Greetings, Colleagues.

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REMINDER: Sign the FSU Class Size Pledge!

7/1/2020

Colleagues,

Even though over 300 of our NTT colleagues have already been sent non-reappointment notices, we, the remaining faculty, can support our non-reappointed colleagues by pledging to resist larger class sizes and refusing to enroll students over course caps for the upcoming fall semester (see the contract language in Article 15.4 of the contract).

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The Point: Metric Systems

6/29/2020

Greetings, Colleagues!

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