University of Minnesota clerical workers, poised to take a strike vote, delivered a letter to University President Robert Bruininks Thursday urging him to focus on workers and not a new stadium.

"Your administration has embarked on a rush to build a new, $150 million stadium" for Gopher football, said Phyllis Walker, president of AFSCME Local 3800. "At the same time, you've placed the economic well-being of thousands of university workers at risk.

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"We are here today, members of AFSCME Local 3800, to call on you to reexamine the priorities you are establishing and to focus on settling our contract on a fair and equitable basis."

Bruininks did not meet with Walker and other AFSCME members who went to Morrill Hall to deliver the letter, but two staff members accepted the document.

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Phyllis Walker (in gray jacket at right) presents a letter to University President Robert Bruininks to staff members Donna Saathoff and Lynn Holleran.
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Local 3800 members are voting on the university's final contract offer on Oct. 1 and 2. Leaders are urging rejection of the pact, which would freeze wages, eliminate pay increases for seniority, and raise health care premiums by hundreds of dollars.

Outside Morrill Hall Thursday, union members distributed fliers showing the salaries paid to top university administrators. Sixty administrators now earn more than $120,311 a year, which is the same as the salary for Minnesota's governor.

The number of top administrative positions at the university has more than doubled in the last 14 years, Walker said. If one-quarter of those positions were eliminated, the savings would be nearly $3 million -- more than enough to cover rising health care costs for clericals and other low-paid workers, she said.

Local 3800, Teamsters Local 320 and the Labor and Community Strike Support Committee are sponsoring a Rally for a Fair Contract Tuesday, Sept. 30, at noon outside Coffman Union on the university's Minneapolis campus. University union workers, non-union staff, students, faculty and community supporters are scheduled to participate.

For more information
Visit the Local 3800 website, www.afscme3800.org

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University of Minnesota clerical workers, poised to take a strike vote, delivered a letter to University President Robert Bruininks Thursday urging him to focus on workers and not a new stadium.

“Your administration has embarked on a rush to build a new, $150 million stadium” for Gopher football, said Phyllis Walker, president of AFSCME Local 3800. “At the same time, you’ve placed the economic well-being of thousands of university workers at risk.

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“We are here today, members of AFSCME Local 3800, to call on you to reexamine the priorities you are establishing and to focus on settling our contract on a fair and equitable basis.”

Bruininks did not meet with Walker and other AFSCME members who went to Morrill Hall to deliver the letter, but two staff members accepted the document.

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Phyllis Walker (in gray jacket at right) presents a letter to University President Robert Bruininks to staff members Donna Saathoff and Lynn Holleran.
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Local 3800 members are voting on the university’s final contract offer on Oct. 1 and 2. Leaders are urging rejection of the pact, which would freeze wages, eliminate pay increases for seniority, and raise health care premiums by hundreds of dollars.

Outside Morrill Hall Thursday, union members distributed fliers showing the salaries paid to top university administrators. Sixty administrators now earn more than $120,311 a year, which is the same as the salary for Minnesota’s governor.

The number of top administrative positions at the university has more than doubled in the last 14 years, Walker said. If one-quarter of those positions were eliminated, the savings would be nearly $3 million — more than enough to cover rising health care costs for clericals and other low-paid workers, she said.

Local 3800, Teamsters Local 320 and the Labor and Community Strike Support Committee are sponsoring a Rally for a Fair Contract Tuesday, Sept. 30, at noon outside Coffman Union on the university’s Minneapolis campus. University union workers, non-union staff, students, faculty and community supporters are scheduled to participate.

For more information
Visit the Local 3800 website, www.afscme3800.org

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