Since April the Resident Assistants (RAs), now with the addition of the Peer Mentors (PMs), have been battling with UMass Administration to receive the same fairness offered to the other unions on the Amherst campus, including fellow UAW 2322 members (Graduate Employees and Postdocs). Tuesday, December 8th, a rally formed at the student union building and marched their way to the administrative offices at Whitmore. … Continue reading
RAs and Peer Mentors Did you know: UMass has proposed to extend your weekend duty shifts by an additional 5 hours a shift without reducing your work elsewhere (8:00 PM until Noon the following day) After twelve bargaining sessions, UMass is still adamantly opposed to providing a fair and equal process to RAs and Peer Mentors that have been terminated (just cause) UMass is continuing … Continue reading
My name is Court Cline, and I am the Union Representative for the Resident Assistant Unit of UAW Local 2322 (RAU/UAW), the Union that represents all RAs and Peer Mentors at UMass-Amherst. Since April 2015, we have been bargaining a new RAU/UAW contract with the UMass administration. Although your bargaining team initially made some progress with some of their proposals, it is clear that the … Continue reading