Inside UMB-FSU

4/3/2023

Dear FSU member,   

This issue of Nuts & Bolts invites you to an April 6^th FSU Forum to tell us about your thoughts on the Healey Library. We are also sharing information about an MTA dues increase.    

HEALEY LIBRARY: WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU. JOIN US APRIL 6^TH 12:30PM   

4/3/2023

Subject: The refusal of UMB administrators to bargain 

Action: Write to Executive Director of Labor Relations, Mickey Gallagher 

Greetings, Colleagues: 

Dear FSU Members,

The FSU Executive Committee is meeting tomorrow Friday, March 31^st, 3:00PM - 4:00PM.

The meeting will be only on Zoom.  (contact FSU or Caroline Coscia for Zoom information).

In tomorrow’s meeting, we will be focusing our discussion on FSU budget planning and the FSU Annual Meeting. 

We hope to see you then. 

Caroline Coscia                                 

FSU President                                   

3/29/2023

A reminder to please join us tomorrow at 1:30 for an Archives Open House on the fifth floor of the library, jointly hosted by the FSU and the Healey Library’s Archives (more information below). In commemoration and honor of civil rights leader Mel King, a selection of materials from his 1983 Boston mayoral campaign will be on display (contact library.archives@umb.edu for more information about his papers, which he recently donated to UMass Boston).

3/27/2023

Dear FSU member,

Voting for the Vice President, Pre-Tenure Faculty, and Non-Tenure Track Faculty Representative elections closed this morning at 9AM, and the election results are in.  

Congratulations to your new FSU Executive Committee members:

Vice President:                                             Sana Haroon

Pre-Tenure Representative:                          Jared Poole

NTT Representatives:                                   Lynne Benson