7/25/2022

Dear Members, 

Our July 22nd paycheck included our 2% cost of living raise. This is good.    

What is not good, the university also took out a union dues deduction for dues paying FSU members. Union dues deductions only occur September to June, ten deductions.   

7/6/2022

Dear FSU Member,

The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) summer conference is back!    

Come join fellow MTA members July 31^st to August 3^rd at UMass Amherst.   

This year’s conference is ‘offering program tracks focused on union leadership, advocacy, bargaining and political organizing’.  

6/29/2022

Dear Colleagues, 

6/8/2022

Dear FSU Member,

We’d like to inform you of the following retirement workshops conducted by the MTA’s retirement specialist, Ed McCourt (see his email below). These workshops are for FSU/MTA members only.

Sincerely,

Caroline Coscia                                 Jeff Melnick

FSU President                                   FSU Vice President

Senior Lecturer II                              Professor

Political Science                                American Studies

6/1/2022

Dear FSU Members,

As part of the contract negotiated by the FSU and UMB administration, the university agreed to establish a “$25,000 pool of funding in each year [of the contract that] shall be allocated to and distributed by the Provost’s office in consultation with the FSU to support anti-racism activities for faculty and librarians.”