Higher Education

12/11/2023

Dear Members, 

July 1, 2023, Pay Raise

We are happy to say our December 22, 2023, paycheck will include your July 1, 2023, 4% raise plus the retroactive pay from July 1^st.  To receive the July 1^st, raise, you needed to have been on payroll on June 30, 2023.  The ranks for Lecturer and above are eligible for the pay raise.   

FSU Annual Elections, Spring 2024

The Elections Committee will be sending information including a timeline.  Watch for an email for the Elections Committee email.

12/7/2023

Today’s Point was written by Maurice T. Cunningham who retired in 2021 as an associate professor in the Department of Political Science.

When I finished my book Dark Money and the Politics of School Privatization in 2021, I figured I had a pretty good handle on the billionaire funded attacks on public education. But then I learned much more about their efforts and the importance of unions while helping to defend a UMass Boston colleague from a right-wing attack.

12/5/2023

Dear Members,

What a glorious morning it is.   

Governor Healey signed the supplemental budget! Our raises have been adopted.

Yesterday afternoon, the House  and Senate passed the supplemental budget.  At 5pm the governor signed it into law.

11/16/2023

Today’s Point was written by Professor Steve Striffler of the Labor Resource Center.

10/23/2023

Dear Members, 

Status of Our Raises:  The Good, the bad and the……….