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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

 

Bargaining Today – please join

12/21/2021

Hi All,

We bargained for 3 hours yesterday and will do so again today.   The pace of bargaining has picked up considerably.  We are now making forward progress!   So you better join the team today if you want to participate in this round of bargaining – time is running out to take part in the fun!

Register here for today’s bargaining from 4-7pm:

 (contact FSU or Steve Striffler for registration information).

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The Point: No Tiers This Holiday Season

12/20/2021

Greetings, Colleagues:

Can we talk about breakfast cereal?

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Bargaining Invite – next Tuesday and Wednesday

12/16/2021

Dear FSU Members,

We owe you a bargaining update from our last bargaining session on Monday – which will come after we get some grading done!

In the meantime, we invite you to join two bargaining sessions next week – where we will continue to discuss raises, promotional bumps, distance learning, and the like.

Tuesday, 3:30-6:30 

Wednesday, 4-7pm 

 (contact FSU or Steve Striffler for registration information).

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UPDATE -- Thursday Union Action - Holiday Lunch with Chancellor

12/15/2021

Dear FSU Members,

Some good news.  The Chancellor has agreed to meet with representatives of the unions – no doubt due to your pressure.  We are setting up a meeting. 

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Thursday Action, 12pm – Holiday Message for Chancellor!

12/14/2021

Dear FSU Members,

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The Point: Solidarity

12/13/2021

Greetings, Colleagues: 

Since I believe that a picture really can be worth a thousand words, I am going to keep this week’s Point very brief and mainly want to say: see below.  What you are seeing is members of all the campus unions, joined together in solidarity, trying to deliver a simple message to the chancellor: fair bargaining now. 

Of course all these union members were initially blocked from the main stairwells and elevators by the campus safety officers, presumably acting on the orders of upper administration. 

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Bargaining Invite and Rally Recap

12/10/2021

Please register for bargaining this Monday – from 4-7  (contact FSU or Steve Striffler for registraton information).    [Before you register, please make sure you can attend at least some of the bargaining session; we reached our capacity of 30 members last time and some folks couldn’t attend since we filled up]

Thanks to the roughly two hundred union members who showed up to make our collective voice known to the Administration – Fair Bargaining Now!

 

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Announcement of FSU Spring 2022 Elections

12/10/2021

Dear Colleagues, 

The Faculty Staff Union (FSU) holds an election every Spring semester for positions on the FSU Executive Committee.  

The positions up for election or re-election in Spring 2022 include: 

President 

Librarian  

Non-Tenure Track (2 positions) 

Pre-Tenure (1 position) 

Tenured (2 positions) 

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Thursday Action and Bargaining Update

12/6/2021

Dear FSU Members,

Last Thursday, around 200 union members from the FSU, PSU, CSU, GEO, and DCU met to discuss the shared problems the unions are facing at the bargaining table and with labor relations in general.    What can you do to help?

  1. Please join us for a rally with all the campus unions!

THURSDAY, 12:30-1:30 PM

QUINN, 1ST FLOOR

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The Point: The Battle of the Status Quo vs. Health Promotion

12/6/2021

Greetings, Colleagues:

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