The Joint Council of UAW Local 2322 has approved a vote by our membership on whether to approve a merger of a smaller sister UAW Local (Local 2232) into our Local Union. We are an “amalgamated” union, which includes about 3,500 members from eighteen different “bargaining units” employed at the University of Massachusetts and in other higher education, human services, healthcare and early childhood education … Continue reading
On Thursday, January 8, our offices will be closed due to inclement weather. We apolologize for any inconvenience. Stay warm and drive safe!
Our contract expires on March 31, 2015. Join your fellow postdoctoral researchers to help bargain a new contract! Your union, the Postdoctoral Researcher Organization/UAW Local 2322, is preparing to bargain a second contract for when our current agreement expires at the end of March. In the last contract, we won paid time off, salary minimums, subsidized childcare, and groundbreaking protections for international postdocs! A strong … Continue reading
On November 18, the Goddard Staff Bargaining Committee met with management to negotiate a first agreement for the union. Following up on our October 30 bargaining session, where we were able to come to tentative agreement on “Union Recognition”, “Discipline and Discharge”, “Non-Discrimination”, “Sexual Harassment”, “Personnel Files”, “Notices”, “Severability”, “Union Security”, “Labor/Management Committee”, “Residency Employees”, and “Probation and Probationary Periods”, we reached conceptual agreement on the articles … Continue reading
By Nancy Fish, UAW 2322 Servicing Representative Violence seems to be everywhere; it’s always in the news. You may have witnessed violence at work on occasion, or even regularly. You may be a survivor yourself; maybe it happened at work or maybe you were abused in our own home (see below: Massachusetts Domestic Violence Bill). Our local Union is seeing an increase in violence in … Continue reading