Activism

9/21/2020

Dear FSU Members,

Tomorrow morning, Tuesday 9/22, the UMass Board of Trustees will be meeting. A number of union leaders – including myself and PSU President Anneta Argyres-- will be speaking at the meeting and urging them to roll back the draconian budget they adopted on 7/20, which called for a 6% cut to UMass personnel on all campuses. We need your help to get the Board of Trustees to hear us!

9/17/2020

Dear FSU Members,

Please check out this new MTA commercial/ad that is part of the MTA campaign to defend higher education. One of our very own students is featured prominently!

https://massachusettsagrees.org/

Steve Striffler
FSU President
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9/16/2020

Dear FSU Members,

If you participated in the Academics for Black Survival and Wellness training, and if you are interested in connecting with other UMB faculty/librarians who did, please send us an email (FSU@umb.edu) and we would be happy to connect you with each other!

Thanks,

Steve Striffler

FSU President 

For information on the FSU, links to our contract and bargaining updates, and a calendar of events, see the FSU webpage

9/15/2020

Dear FSU member,

The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) is holding an all higher education member meeting today from 4:30 -6:00PM for the purpose of planning political actions to address layoffs, furloughs, and health and safety issues.  

Please register for this important meeting and learn how you can participate in actions to stop the cuts and furloughs.   Registration information on the attached flyer.

Sincerely,

9/14/2020

In which we argue against the easy fixes of “drive-by diversity” in favor of a profound mobilization across the communities of interest—students, faculty, staff, community members—that should run this university.

Greetings, Colleagues,

For those of us working in higher education everything is up for grabs, isn’t it? 

I mean even figuring out how to start an email to a colleague is not a simple task: “hope this finds you well” seems problematic at best.