FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Jocelyn Silverlight, UAW 2322 President Jocelyn@uaw2322.org Amherst, Massachusetts – February 23, 2015 – The Commonwealth Employment Relations Board (CERB) ruled on February 20, 2015 that the UMass Amherst Peer Mentors shall hold an add-on election on whether or not to join the Resident Assistant Union (RAU), a unit of United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2322. Peer Mentors are undergraduate workers who work in … Continue reading
Come to the next UAW 2322 Solidarity and Education Meeting! February 24, 6:00 – 7:30 PM Haymarket Cafe, 185 Main St., Northampton, MA … Continue reading
Dear fellow GEO members, There are many exciting things to report in this member update! Last week, management disrespectfully and unilaterally cancelled a bargaining session at the last minute, and your elected bargaining team took swift action. In under nine hours, using word-of-mouth and social media, we mobilized 40 GEO members and supporters, especially undergraduate allies, to stage a sit-in and bargaining teach-in outside of … Continue reading
Dear UAW Local 2322 Members, Voting has concluded for the proposed merger with Local 2232, and the majority of those voting have voted in favor of the merger. I learned today that Local 2232 has voted in favor of merging with our Local pending our vote. The merger must be approved by the International Executive Board at their next meeting by the end of February, … Continue reading
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