AFSCME and the University of Minnesota returned to the bargaining table Thursday to negotiate contracts covering some 3,300 clerical, technical and health care workers. The day before, workers rallied to say "We are worth more!"
The workers, among the lowest paid at the university, said the administation's offers on wages and health care still leave many of them struggling to make a living. A survey conducted earlier this year by AFSCME showed that 59 percent of the clerical, technical and health care workers work a second job to make ends meet.
"As the third largest public employer in the state of Minnesota, how is the administration leading the way for the families of Minnesota who work for a living?" the union asked in a flier distributed at the rally.
"If the full-time employees of this world class institution cannot make ends meet, how in the world will anyone else working in this state?"
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Rallies were held on the Minneapolis and Duluth campuses. Contract talks have resumed with the help of a state mediator.
Photos by Deborah Rosenstein
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| AFSCME members said they need to send a message as negotiations resume. From left to right are Jennifer Claybourne Torkelson, Khanh Tran, Mary Garcia, Ronald Mkalama ad Huyuh Pham. |
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| Marie Milsten Fiedler, vice president of AFSCME Local 3800, says university workers don't feel their work is valued. |
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| Rally participants used bags of groceries to demonstrate the inadequacy of the university's contract offer. One person won the bag at the left, filled with lots of goodies. |
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| Mary Brazil walks away after receiving the bag marked "You are worth more." |
For more information
Visit the AFSCME websites:
Local 3800, Clericals at Twin Cities campuses, www.afscme3800.org
Local 3801, Clericals at UMD, www.d.umn.edu/%7Eafscme/
Local 3937, Technical Workers, www.afscme3937.org/
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AFSCME and the University of Minnesota returned to the bargaining table Thursday to negotiate contracts covering some 3,300 clerical, technical and health care workers. The day before, workers rallied to say “We are worth more!”
The workers, among the lowest paid at the university, said the administation’s offers on wages and health care still leave many of them struggling to make a living. A survey conducted earlier this year by AFSCME showed that 59 percent of the clerical, technical and health care workers work a second job to make ends meet.
“As the third largest public employer in the state of Minnesota, how is the administration leading the way for the families of Minnesota who work for a living?” the union asked in a flier distributed at the rally.
“If the full-time employees of this world class institution cannot make ends meet, how in the world will anyone else working in this state?”
buy fluoxetine online https://boniver.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/fluoxetine.html no prescription
Rallies were held on the Minneapolis and Duluth campuses. Contract talks have resumed with the help of a state mediator.
Photos by Deborah Rosenstein
|
| AFSCME members said they need to send a message as negotiations resume. From left to right are Jennifer Claybourne Torkelson, Khanh Tran, Mary Garcia, Ronald Mkalama ad Huyuh Pham. |
?
|
| Marie Milsten Fiedler, vice president of AFSCME Local 3800, says university workers don’t feel their work is valued. |
?
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|
| Rally participants used bags of groceries to demonstrate the inadequacy of the university’s contract offer. One person won the bag at the left, filled with lots of goodies. |
?
|
| Mary Brazil walks away after receiving the bag marked “You are worth more.” |
For more information
Visit the AFSCME websites:
Local 3800, Clericals at Twin Cities campuses, www.afscme3800.org
Local 3801, Clericals at UMD, www.d.umn.edu/%7Eafscme/
Local 3937, Technical Workers, www.afscme3937.org/