Last month colleagues across the USM published op-eds arguing for our right to collective bargaining! Dr. Shana Pearson Merkowitz, of the School of Public Policy at UMD, published “University faculty deserve the right to collective bargaining” in The Baltimore Sun. Over at The Daily Record, Dr. Tina Kelleher, senior lecturer in computer science and information studies at Towson University, and Dr. Robert Birt, professor of philosophy at Bowie State University, published “Why Maryland Faculty deserve to have collective bargaining rights.” Please share these great op-eds with your networks!
On February 26 a thousand graduate workers picked UMD across the College Park campus to recognize the Graduate Labor Union after a supermajority signed union cards, alongside staff allies in AFSCME and faculty allies in UAM.
Remember that we are hosting a Know Your Rights training on Thursday March 6! Drop by the UAM/UMD social hour to learn more about protecting your community from ICE, resources available on campus, the responses from UMD, AAUP, and UAM, and how you can get involved! Check out more details including location and time at our Events Page.