UPDATED MAY 8 -- Over the course of the academic year, Reed College’s unionized housing advisors will empower, support, and build community with hundreds of students. We are the frontlines of helping ensure student success. We have been negotiating for our first union contract for more than a year, and Reed administrators continually refuse to increase our compensation to recognize the added job duties of security rounds.

Our proposals would add less than $200,000 per year to Reed’s budget for HAs, roughly 0.1% of the institution’s $150 million budget. What we are asking for is not unreasonable. In fact, it is similar to the stipends that other institutions on the East Coast have agreed to pay their student workers.

If a contract is not settled this May, about 15 HAs will graduate without a union contract because of the college’s obstinance and delays at the negotiating table. We're planning to picket at commencement to show our grievances with the college in a way Reed cannot ignore.

If you cannot make the picket, we ask that you use this form to send letters to the hired attorney leading Reed's bargaining team, the college president, the vice president of student life, the director of residence life, the dean of students, the director of human resources and the vice president of finance.