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Union
Polling Shows Majority of CSUEU Members Supports Building
Resources to Win Steps
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Dues Vote ends 4 p.m., Tuesday,
May 9
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Lots of May Day
chants and rallies across campuses this week, and it's exciting
to see CSUEU members joining with our other labor siblings as we
show the CSU we are growing our #CSULaborNation to be
#StrikeReady!!
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One key step toward
our “Path to Power” plan is amassing the necessary resources to
win STEPS this year. CSUEU members are voting through May 9
whether to adjust the dues rate from 1% to 1.2%.
The Board of
Directors recommends a YES VOTE!
A recent poll of 1,000 union
members showed 87% believe we need more union resources and the
majority supports a dues adjustment.
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For those who
haven't voted, here are three important reasons to vote YES:
1. We currently
contribute only 1% toward union dues now, which is the lowest of
any public Local within SEIU (Service Employees International
Union).
2. We have mounting public support for our fight for STEPS, and
we need to show that we are ready to invest in ourselves and our
future.
3. We want more union resources – such as more Staff and Labor
Reps (LRRs) – which means increasing the Union’s revenue stream.
Hiring additional
LRRs means members will have increased staffing resources as we
mobilize for a potential strike.
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If you plan to VOTE YES - and
want to see who else is on the VOTE YES TEAM - check
out our Vote Yes poster!
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Our Moment to Support Student Workers
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I took this week
off work to talk to Student Assistants here at CSUN, and get them
signed on union cards. More than 60 members and staff from 8
sibling unions, SEIU State Council, and CSUEU took time away from
their jobs to support Student Assistants organizing this year.
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Why? Because this
is largest non-academic student worker organizing campaign in US
history.
Like many CSUEU
members, I was a Student Assistant. I did the work of staff for
much less. But today, many student workers rely on food pantries,
or don’t know how they’ll pay rent next month.
CSU can’t campaign
against students – so they are DELAYING the process to DISCOURAGE
progress.
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Students leave
campus in a matter of days. They can’t wait and neither can we.
We can walk into
the biggest bargaining fight we’ve had with CSU without Student
Workers – or we can walk arm-in-arm with 10,000 of our closest
colleagues as they build power alongside us.
Student assistants
will sign their union card, we just have to find them and talk to
them. As staff, our knowledge of campus, experience as union
members, and relationships are invaluable to finding them.
In the next week –
each of us needs to use this flyer to sign every
student assistant we know on their union card.
In Solidarity,
Yvonne Carrillo,
CSUEU Member
College of Extended Learning, CSUN
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Campuses Rally on May Day Fighting for Salary
Reform
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Marching and
chanting - with maybe a few bursts of enthusiastic
hollering - thousands of CSU workers made some good noise this
May Day, one of the most coordinated and boisterous gatherings of
labor groups from the CSU in recent years.
In celebration of
International Workers' Day, members from CSUEU, Teamsters 2010,
California Faculty Association, Academic Professionals of
California, and others came together at more than a dozen
campuses to demand a resolution to the longstanding problem
of stagnant pay at the CSU.
View photos from the day and campus media coverage.
The fight for
Salary Steps continues! The next bargaining session is May 9 at the
Office of the Chancellor. CSUEU
members are encouraged to "Wear Blue" that day to
support our Bargaining Team.
The CSUEU Political
Activities Committee is also always looking for member support!
Joining PAC is easy - and necessary - if we want to have
resources to elect pro-worker legislators. Take a minute to contribute to PAC today.
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Cal Poly Pomona Custodians Win Through Organizing
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Last fall, a group
of Custodians at Cal Poly Pomona were frustrated with
understaffing, workload capacity, lack of salary increases and
equity issues. (Sound familiar?!) Chapter President Hector
Maciel set up a meeting with 25 Custodians and the team began
strategizing.
Supported by Union
resources and research data, the Custodians were able to show
salary comparisons with neighboring CSU campus Fullerton. Armed
with the pay inequity information, a group of Custodians filed
for In-Range Progression.
What did this band
of organized union workers win? >> Read more
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 CSUEU is
accepting applications for our next cohort for Stewards Training
on June 23. What is a steward? Stewards are the vital life stream
of any local union. Stewards promote fairness, justice, and
equality at their campuses by:
- Invigorating,
encouraging, and inspiring members
- Keeping members
informed of union activities
- Representing
their worksite in appropriate meetings of the union
- Responsible for
representing the interests of members
- Organizing a
strong and united campus
- Orienting new
members
- Enforcing contracts
and workers' rights on the job
Complete the form to apply to become a Union Steward.
Long Beach
Chapter Vice-President Roger Maxim volunteers with the non-profit
California Organic Gardening Club to address food insecurity at
CSU Long Beach. The Club raised Pole and Bush Bean flats of
plants intended to provide nourishment to the underserved in the
campus community. Union leaders like Roger truly walk the talk
when we say "We are in this together!"
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