Emerson Staff Union

via SEIU888.org / “15 months of contract campaigning led to an agreement that includes a cost of living adjustment”

By Adri Pray, Content Managing Editor / “Emerson’s staff union ratified their next collective bargaining agreement in a 119-1 vote on Wednesday. The agreement grants a cost-of-living adjustment and retroactive raises, along with diversity, equity, and inclusion measures.”

By Adri Pray, Content Managing Editor / “College officials pledged a cumulative 5% base salary increase effective Jan. 1, 2023 for non-union staff members in an email sent to eligible employees hours before the college entered its first mediation session with the staff union on Thursday night.”

By Chloe Els, Staff Writer / “Around 30 members of the Emerson College Staff Union assembled in front of the Cutler Majestic Theatre with handwritten signs to ask the Board of Trustees for a cost-of-living adjustment on Tuesday afternoon.”

By Adri Pray and Hannah Nguyen / “Conversation about the staff union buzzed Thursday morning as faculty members entered the Bobbi Brown and Steven Plofker Gym for the 2022 Faculty Institute. Many people donned “I support the Emerson staff union” stickers on their shirts or read fliers outlining where the staff union is stuck in its negotiations.”

Staff union files federal complaint against college

by Camilo Fonseca via The Berkeley Beacon / “Emerson’s staff union filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board last month, charging the college with unfair labor practices.”

Emerson Staff Union hopes for ‘more of a voice’ in second contract

by Adri Pray via The Berkeley Beacon / “Our overarching goal is to bring more equity to how staff are treated at Emerson and to ensure that the staff have more of a voice in decisions that are directly affecting our working conditions.”

by Abigail Lee via The Berkeley Beacon / “For both the Emerson Staff Union and ELAF-AAUP, the efforts come down to strengthening the college’s commitment to equity.”

by The Emerson Staff Union Bargaining Team via The Berkeley Beacon / “We see individuals learn and grow on our campus, but we also see them stifled. We see them burn out and leave because Emerson doesn’t love them back.”

by Bailey Allen and Vivi Smilgius via The Berkeley Beacon / “Members of Emerson’s staff union took to the streets this week amid contract negotiations with the college, demanding the college increase hiring in several areas that they say are already severely understaffed.”

by Binx Perino via Working Mass / “Workers reluctantly agreed to the suspension for 12 months, until the College had a clearer financial outlook⁠—in practice, this has become an indefinite delay.”

by Bailey Allen via The Berkeley Beacon / “Almost a year after college administrators promised to give all staff the annual 3.9 percent salary increase agreed upon during the union’s 2018 collective bargaining agreement, members of the Emerson College Staff Union are petitioning to get their negotiated raises back at last.”

by Illona Yukhayev via The Berkeley Beacon / “There are no perfect leaders, simply because there are no perfect people, but there are good leaders, and what makes them good leaders is the genuine respect they have for the people they lead.”

by Illona Yukhayev via The Berkeley Beacon / “When you stand at your commencement next month, look at your peers, and make a decision right there and then, to never fight them for scraps. Instead, join forces with them, grow stronger in solidarity, and build a better workforce together. You are never alone.”

by the Editorial Board of The Berkeley Beacon / “Staff and faculty shouldn’t have to fight for benefits that were already promised to them, especially during a time where they are much more vulnerable. It’s time that Emerson prioritizes the people that keep this institution running and start by reinstating the benefits cut from staff.”