Professional Instructors Organization @ WMU

#WMU cherry-picked a list of “comparable schools” (mostly community colleges and non-union institutions) to tell us we were too well-paid. Here’s a list of ACTUAL comparable schools, it tells a different story #Kzoo #Kalamazoo

See you there!

Tune into @widrfm at 1:30 to hear PIO President Jasmine LaBine and @TAUAFT President Thomas Fisher talk about the ongoing values crisis happening at WMU. #upholdthegold @WMUAAUP @SaveWMU @WMUGhostBronco

Thank you, @WesternHerald!

Join us Thursday for a socially distanced, masked outdoor demonstration demanding that WMU return to its values and respect the work of its employees. fb.me/e/275jR4vBB @TAUAFT @WMUAAUP @kzoodems @aftmichigan @wsawmu @WesternHerald @SaveWMU @WMUGhostBronco

You can watch the livestream of #WMU 's board of trustees meeting here, and watch our PIO President, Jasmine, speak to the board about our concerns about the admin's financial priorities youtu.be/mi5htuC1vnY

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They showed up for us, so come show up for them ✊

#WMU Our Students deserve to know where their tuition dollars go #Solidarity #Kzoo

Our working conditions are our students' learning conditions, and so far WMU admin has seemed largely uninterested in improving either! Why is WMU admin more interested in paying exorbitant admin salaries and outside consultants than it is in fairly paying its instructors?

📝Pop quiz Q1: How much of a bonus are we asking WMU to pay our dedicated, long-serving, instructors? -A1: $100 Q2: How much has @WesternMichU admin paid it's union-busting lawyer so far to tell us they don't have the money? -A2: many thousands 💰💵 Make the math make sense 📝🧮

📢📢📢So excited to meet our new students for Fall and welcome them to WMU! Admin still has 10 days to do the right thing. If not, we will have to tell our students on move-in day where their tuition dollars go, which isn't to the instructors who teach many of their classes📢📢📢

We stand with our AAUP colleagues!

Please support our comrades at AAUP! They’ve shown up for us, and it’s time that we show up for them.

Come see our union siblings from KVCC tomorrow at art hop! They've come out to support us in our fight, let's make sure we do the same #Solidarity

Somewhere along the way it has started feeling like instructional staff aren’t a priority for WMU

Add that to the list of things that #WMU admin would rather spend their money on instead of fairly compensating their instructors #Kalamazoo #kzoo

We know they have the money, it’s just that somehow fairly compensating it’s instructional staff doesn’t seem to be a priority

@terrycrews we're the union of part-time faculty at your old school, Western Michigan University. If you see this we could really use some support, the university doesn't want to pay us a fair and living wage. Can you sign and share? actionnetwork.org/petitions/…