Higher Education

2/7/2022

Greetings, Colleagues!

(A note from Communications Director Jeff Melnick: Please read the wonderful guest Point column below written by our FSU comrade Joseph Ramsey)

From A Hundred Separate Bargaining Tables…to a United National Higher Ed Movement

HELU’s Winter Summit is Coming (February 23-27)!

1/24/2022

Greetings, Colleagues:

Happy New Year!

I truly hope you got what you needed—rest, focus, fun—over this winter break. 

1/21/2022

Dear Members,

Goodbye 2021….and hello 2022!  We hope you got a well-deserved break and are ready for what promises to be a challenging Spring semester.  

The University’s Covid safety protocols are not where the FSU would like them to be, especially in terms of testing, masking, and social distancing, but we are nonetheless returning to face-to-face teaching this semester.  Requests to temporarily move your class to a remote modality should be made through your Department Chair.   

12/3/2021

Dear FSU Members:

Please sign the MTA’s Fair Share Amendment Vote Pledge.   The Fair Share Amendment will create an additional tax of 4% on the portion of an individual’s income over $1 million – to be invested in public schools/colleges.  We really need this!  Details below.

12/3/2021

Dear FSU Members,

Thanks so much to those of you who joined in yesterday’s all union meeting – with around 200 UMB union members.   We sent a clear message – from all the unions – to the Chancellor that labor relations need to improve if we want to be a health-promoting university.  Please join all the unions next Thursday in Quinn at 12:30 to make sure this message is heard.