via SEIU888.org / “15 months of contract campaigning led to an agreement that includes a cost of living adjustment”
Author: Editorial Team
‘Brutal’ Negotiation Leads to COLA for Staff Union
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.”
Non-union Staff to See 5% Raise Going into New Year
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.”
Emerson Staff Union Rallies Outside Board of Trustees Meeting
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.”
Emerson Staff Union Demonstration Demands Cost-of-Living Adjustment, Equitable Conditions
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 […]
Union Members Invite Prospective Students to Picture Themselves Working at Emerson
by Max Reyes via The Berkeley Beacon / “Members of the college’s staff union gathered outside of the Cutler Majestic Theatre on Saturday morning wearing stylized picture frames around their necks to raise awareness of the issues they face among students visiting the college for Picture Yourself at Emerson Day.”
Union Staff Claims College Stalling Negotiations
By Max Reyes via The Berkeley Beacon / “‘In spite of stalling tactics… we’re not going to get discouraged,’ Pierre Huberson, audio post production supervisor for Television, Radio, and Film and another member of the bargaining committee, said…”