If 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 MoreAnyone who regularly donates or has ever donated to the University of Michigan has power to help us get a fair contract.
Read MoreUse this phone #: 734-890-5169 Email: presoff@umich.edu Twitter: @DrMarkSchlissel
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 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 MoreThere will be two extra bargaining sessions next week, sessions which any U-M lecturer may attend.
Read MoreHow do we as a community - Lecturers, students, graduate students, tenure track faculty, tax payers, etc. - make university administration realize that we will not accept anything less than an equitable contract for Lecturers?
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 MoreWhen workers fight for themselves in the right way, they fight for everybody.
Read MoreThe West Virginia teachers are doing their part and more to raise the price of their labor, improve students' learning conditions (which are their working conditions), and redistribute power in their states.
Are you ready to do yours?
Read MoreWe invite Lecturers and allies to check out our Power Building Toolkit. This toolkit contains materials and instructions for how you can spread the word about our fight for a fair contract and help us build power within the university and larger community.
Read More"If you aspire to be 'the leaders and the best,' then you don't follow the market--you create the market."
Read MoreOn Monday, February 12, University of Michigan administration finally came to the bargaining table to give Lecturers a counterproposal on our salary ask.
Read MoreOn Thursday, February 15th, our Lecturers and supporters will hold a Grade-In (1-3pm), Press Conference (3:00PM-3:30PM), and then attend and speak at the U of M Regents’ meeting (3:30-5pm) in the Anderson Room of the Michigan Union. We invite you to join us.
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