The convention is here—find out where to meet us to help build power for the next fight: 1 UNIVERSITY! Come for the power building, stay for food and fun!
Read MoreIf you can spare a couple of hours, please consider phone-banking or canvassing in the next few weeks. Like this week’s member guest blogger, you might be touched by the stories of some of the people on the other end of the line.
Read MoreFor the next three weeks, please expect a greatly reduced presence on our Facebook, Twitter, and blog. The Communications Committee is taking this time to regroup and update all of our online materials to reflect changes in the contract and union strategy moving forward.
Read MoreDearborn Lecturers and allies protested the University of Michigan-Dearborn ELB groundbreaking to tell the administration that its priorities are hurting the faculty who teach the majority of classes on campus as well as students.
Read MoreWe'll be bargaining tomorrow at 6PM at Academic HR on the corner of Hoover and Greene--with a salary counter from them. On Friday, we'll bargain at Pierpont Commons on North Campus again.
Read MoreOver 80% of LEO members responding to electronic ballot voted last week to authorize the bargaining team and elected Union Council to call the work stoppage on April 9 and 10 if we don’t see significant improvement on our most important demands.
Read MoreThis update covers two bargaining sessions — Wednesday March 28 and Friday March 30 — since the pace of bargaining is quickening along with the pace of the semester in general.
Read MoreLet's each fill a seat, get something to eat, and help support LEO to negotiate a contract that can't be beat!
Read MoreThere will be two extra bargaining sessions next week, sessions which any U-M lecturer may attend.
Read MoreOver the next few weeks, there really will be additional, ad-hoc bargaining sessions to resolve both non-economic and economic issues. Lecturers, we need to be at these sessions, too!
Read MoreAs of Sunday, March 25, an electronic ballot has been sent to all union members in good standing, asking whether to authorize the union leadership to propose a major two-day job action.
Read MoreWe heard from a political candidate, fellow lecturers, and a representative from a sister union. The final speeches by Flint campus chair Stephanie Gelderloos and by Residential College lecturer Bob King particularly struck loud, resonant chords with the hundred-plus people gathered together.
Read MoreWe've made some gains in bargaining, including an agreement to bridge health benefits over the spring and summer terms for lecturers who teach in the winter and know they'll be teaching in the fall.
Read MoreEach of these meetings happen on each campus, and you can go to whatever meeting is most convenient for you--you do not have to attend a meeting at the campus on which you teach.
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