UAW 2322 members include thousands of hardworking parents in Western Massachusetts who struggle to access affordable child care as well as child care center workers who are underpaid and undervalued. The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the realities that affordable, quality child care is essential to all workers and that child care workers are essential to our economy. UAW 2322 has joined the campaign for a … Continue reading
We had a successful bargaining session Monday, August 3rd. Members on the negotiating team were able to reach a tentative agreement that will be voted on by the entire membership for approval this week!Congratulations on all your hard work advocating for what we deserve and winning pay that goes beyond the May 1st timeline that management originally offered. Below is a summary of the tentative … Continue reading
In bargaining sessions and meetings, fellow members have said “We need more to recognize the work we do” than what ServiceNet management has offered. Our union is us, the 500 members at ServiceNet that make the agency run. We decide together what to accept or reject from management. There is no outside person making these decisions. Management has held up payment by not listening to workers.The money … Continue reading
We, the rank and file and leadership of UAW Local 2322 are appalled and horrified by the white supremacist murder of George Floyd by four police officers in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 25 2020. We are writing to assert that Black Lives Matter. We demand that the four officers responsible for this murder, Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J Alexander Kueng, and Tou Thao be held … Continue reading
UAW 2322 — with almost 3,500 academic and student worker members at UMass Amherst and Goddard College — is in proud, unwavering solidarity with the hundreds of student workers at Columbia University currently on strike for rent waivers, job security, and international student protections in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Corporations and major institutions, like Columbia and UMass, receive millions in assistance from the federal … Continue reading