Ohio University Classified Employees are coming together to gain respect, fairness, and the opportunity to collectively bargain for better pay, work conditions, and benefits. While Classified Employees have worked to form a union multiple times in the past, the current campaign began at the start of 2019. For the past year and a half Classified Staff have been working together to gain the voice that they deserve on all Ohio University campuses. Classified Employees won their union represenation on Wednesday, August 5th.
Ohio University Classified Employees are coming together to gain respect, fairness, and the opportunity to collectively bargain for better pay, work conditions, and benefits. While Classified Employees have worked to form a union multiple times in the past, the current campaign began at the start of 2019. For the past year and a half Classified Staff have been working together to gain the voice that they deserve on all Ohio University campuses. Classified Employees won their union represenation on Wednesday, August 5th.
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*To sign your Union Membership Card, email or call your AFSCME Organizer Corissa at cspence@afscme8.org or (614) 787-2556.*
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*To sign your Union Membership Card, email us at myoucats@gmail.com
We Need to Take Collective Action to Build Off of Our Recent Wins!
Call or Email your Commissioner TODAY or by NEXT TUESDAY Nov 3rd!
Encourage your family and friends to call commissioners! Share with them your personal story or simply tell them:
Protect workers and protect community services! Don’t balance the budget off the backs of frontline staff! Cuts to frontline staff mean cuts to resident services.
No Layoffs or Furloughs of Front-Line Staff! Chop from the top!
Safety in the workplace!
Mandate masks, not face coverings!
COVID-19 Testing for staff on worktime and at worksite!
Verbal health screening and temperature screenings onsite for staff and public!
The AFSCME UMN Health & Safety Committee has developed a new petition calling for greater transparency around COVID cases and potential exposure on campus.
We believe that keeping Staff, Faculty and Students at the U safe during this pandemic is of the utmost importance, and that means that UMN leadership needs to provide a comprehensive system of tracking and reporting COVID cases and possible exposure that goes far beyond just meeting the minimum legal standard of the CDC.
While confidentiality of names is important too, the reality is, there is no law against saying when there have been cases in our areas, on our floors, or in our buildings. Many people would say they want to know if they have been at-risk for exposure to the virus in the workplace. This is something that we believe the U can do without sacrificing individual privacy. However, for UMN Leadership to do this, they need to hear this from us.
Please join your coworkers in signing this new petition and think of every person you can share it with and share it with them as well. It can be signed by anyone who supports safety and greater transparency.
The Sunrise and the Maroon & Gold plans are underway at the University of Minnesota. These plans are meant to provide guidelines and protocols to ensure for a safe return to campus for staff, faculty and students. However, since staff have begun returning to work earlier this summer, we have seen Sunrise Plan guidelines and protocols broken in our workplaces. We have yet to see a centralized way of enforcing and reporting these mandates without concern for retaliation. Guidelines and protocols are merely suggestions if they are not actually being enforced. We demand a centralized, departmentally-detached and anonymous reporting mechanism for staff, students and faculty to report violations in their worksites.
Further, as folks are being asked to return to the workplace, they are not being...
Over the past few months, we have been contacted by several departments regarding layoffs of AFSCME and other employees - most notably within University Athletics. Though President Gabel has repeatedly voiced her commitment to not address budget shortfalls through layoffs and as a union we are committed to fight to preserve our jobs, there may be instances where a layoff takes place and it's important that members understand our rights if a layoff does take place. Join us at Thursday's informational meeting to find out your rights and options.
**Reminder: We are working to host info sessions 2x per month, however, this may change month to month. Please refer to these digests to get the most up-to-date information on when info sessions are occurring and what the topic for that date is!**
It is with great sadness that I regret to inform you of the passing of Enrico Siravo Sr., 71, who passed away October 26, 2020.
Brother Siravo came to America in 1972. He worked for RI College, State of Rhode Island for twenty years. He enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, gardening and time with his lodge buddies Arthur and Anthony, as well as his buddy Joe Rosa.
Visitation will be held Thursday, 4-7 p.m. with his funeral on Friday at 9 a.m. from the PONTARELLI-MARINO Home, 971 Branch Avenue, Providence. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. in Our Lady of the Rosary Church, 21 Traverse Street, Providence.
