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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
By Brooks Ballenger, UAW 2322 Servicing Representative Back in the late 70’s and early 80’s we did lots of door knocking, petitions, and lobbying activities trying to get a bottle bill passed in Massachusetts. One of my favorites was the “Can to King” campaign, where we flattened soda cans and mailed them to Governor King, a staunch opponent of any pro-environment legislation. We finally passed … Continue reading