by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Mar 12, 2024 | UAM-UMD Updates
Screenshot The Maryland General Assembly is considering a bill to give state university faculty the right to form a union. Currently, staff at the state’s colleges and universities are unionized, but faculty and graduate workers are not. I have been a faculty member...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Feb 11, 2024 | UAM-UMD Updates
Louiqa Raschid and Luka Arsenjuk, professors at the University of Maryland, explain in The Baltimore Banner what University System of Maryland leadership gets wrong about collective bargaining for USM faculty and graduate workers. Raschid and Arsenjuk, both former...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Feb 2, 2024 | UAM-UMD Updates
Hannah Gaskill of the Baltimore Sun provides coverage of new bills in support of collective bargaining for state workers, including House Bill 493 which would extend collective bargaining rights to graduate students, postdoctoral associates and part- and full-time...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Nov 28, 2023 | UAM-UMD Updates
A sign at the graduate student protest for collective bargaining and unionization on McKeldin Mall on March 11, 2020. (Joe Ryan/The Diamondback) Read Rigby Phillips of the Graduate Labor Union’s Legislative Team in The Diamondback on why graduate assistants have...
by UMD AAUP Executive Committee | Sep 22, 2023 | UAM-UMD Updates
Protesters respond to a call-and-response chant at the UAW Rally at Hornbake Plaza on Sept. 21, 2023. (Daryl Perry/The Diamondback) On September 21st, UMD AAUP joined with UMD’s Graduate Labor Union and the campus Local 1072 of AFSCME in a rally ahead of the...
