| We won a tentative agreement and while we get ready to vote on ratification, the fight for our PSU coworkers, students, and community needs continues. |
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Email Governor Kotek
Together we can recruit Governor Kotek to appoint a Board of Trustees that’ll invest in working conditions and learning conditions in our next contract. The Board of Trustees Finance and Administration chair Sheryl Manning has been a strong advocate of draconian budget cuts, which have led to the unnecessary and counterproductive layoffs of 17 of our faculty colleagues. Her current term on the Board ends on June 30th. |
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Email Governor Kotek and ask her not to reappoint Sheryl Manning to the PSU Board. Instead, appoint someone with a higher education background who will champion our working conditions and students’ learning conditions, not cut PSU to the bone.
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April 4th Board of Trustees meeting, 9:30am, ASRC 515
We’ve postponed the April 4th practice picket pending the results of our ratification vote. That said, inside the April 4th BoT, let’s push administration to use its formidable lobbying apparatus to raise revenue to fully fund PSU. Given the shifting landscape of funding nationally, this is more urgent than ever.
Additionally, as the Trump administration’s politically motivated attacks on students and academic workers escalate nationally, let’s turn out our coworkers and community to the April 4th Board of Trustees meeting to demand President Cudd defend our students, colleagues, and community. Members of every on-campus union have already met with the Cudd administration to ask for this sort of assurance two weeks ago, the lack of a response from administration is concerning.
Lastly, at the Board of Trustees, let’s all ask administration to stop displacing indigenous academic labor and live administration’s espoused values. Academic professionals who work inside the Native American Student and Community Center were pushed out of their on campus home during Native American Heritage Month. |
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