Respect. Fairness. A Voice. We are UTSF, the Union of Tenure-System Faculty at Michigan State University. #UnionNOW
East Lansing, MI
Joined October 2023
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No treats or truth from @michiganstateu admin 👻. Happy Halloween from UTSF! 🎃
@KevinGuskiewicz @Jeitschko
Unions are stronger when we are together! We will never be silent under the administration of @michiganstateu. @untf_msu @GradEmpUnion @ASMSU #UnionStrong
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Will be there 🫡
Can we count on you to join our rally tomorrow? @GradEmpUnion @untf_msu @KevinGuskiewicz @thesnews @ScheerTheoJRN @sarahmatwood
@michellejokisch #UnionsForAll #UnionNow
Can we count on you to join our rally tomorrow? @GradEmpUnion @untf_msu @KevinGuskiewicz @thesnews @ScheerTheoJRN @sarahmatwood
@michellejokisch #UnionsForAll #UnionNow
Stand with @utsfmsu and @untf_msu to demand unions recognition and faculty rights @michiganstateu. @GradEmpUnion #UnionNow #UnionStrong
@utsfmsu demands @michiganstateu to recognize
our union through a card-check process as it promised in the neutrality resolution 3 years ago. Will you join us this Friday?
Year after year, @michiganstateu administrators give themselves generous raises on top of their already sky high salaries, as tenure system faculty and librarian salaries lag far behind. Faculty won’t have a real say in our raises until we have a union with legal standing! @KevinGuskiewicz @Jeitschko #UnionNow
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Great video! It has been >9 months since @utsfmsu reached a clear majority support for establishing a faculty union at @michiganstateu and filed for recognition with our Administration. Compare this with the timeline to establish Solidarity in 1980 in 🇵🇱 (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soli….
Recognition of our union is not complicated despite what @KevinGuskiewicz and @Jeitschko want you to think. @michiganstateu should have recognized UTSF many months ago. Administration's foot-dragging is nothing more than a union-busting tactic, which doesn't serve the interests of our campus community or make MSU a better place. #UnionsForAll
Faculty deserve more than an advisory role. UTSF can strengthen academic governance and ensure faculty voices are heard loud and clear #UnionStrong #UnionsForAll
Faculty deserve a real voice. A union means we can negotiate a legally binding contract, not just make requests. Together, we can ensure our rights and protections are enforceable. #UnionsForAll #UnionStrong
Regardless of what McKinsey reported to @Michiganstateu, faculty know one key change that will support research productivity @KevinGuskiewicz @Jeitschko: "Hire back the staff that used to help faculty submit and manage grants (you know, those things that you keep 56% of as overhead) so we can submit and manage more grants (that fund graduate students and undergraduate scholars in our labs)."
Yesterday, we focused on outdated research and physical infrastructure at @michiganstateu. Today, faculty share what they would do with $2M to support research and teaching at our university. One common request we heard @KevinGuskiewicz: “Invest in tenure-track faculty lines. Our working conditions are students' learning conditions and profs can better invest in creative & sustaining pedagogy when they don't also have to be looking for permanent jobs!”