MSCF: Petition the board
Minnesota State Board of Trustees
The time is now to make meaningful and substantial progress in MSCF bargaining with Minnesota State. The future of 2-year public higher education in Minnesota is at stake. The time to act is now.
On February 7, Bargaining Action Team (BAT) Leaders delivered over 360 letters from faculty to the Minnesota State bargaining team. Our letters had an effect on the tone of negotiations and we want this movement to continue dramatically.
As you know, MSCF has four priority areas in bargaining: ensuring competitive compensation to attract and retain high quality faculty, addressing inequities in work and pay, counselors to support student mental health, and ensuring stability for contingent faculty.
Signing this petition supports those priorities.
The signatures from this petition will be delivered together to the Minnesota State Board of Trustees and Chancellor. Your name matters and will not be anonymous. As a union of faculty, where we go, we go together.
No matter what the bargaining team for Minnesota State says, faculty are not administratively burdensome. We provide the education that powers our colleges and system. We are educators and when we fight, we win.
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To:
Minnesota State Board of Trustees
From:
[Your Name]
We, the undersigned MinnState faculty and their supporters, know that the bargaining proposals put forward by the MSCF bargaining team are necessary for maintaining excellent public two year higher education institutions. Over the last two years, we’ve seen how and where we need to invest on our campuses to ensure our students have the support they need. Our proposals address these priorities by:
1. Providing students access to counselors to support their mental health and academic needs
2. Addressing inequities in workload and pay
3. Providing stability for our contingent faculty
4. Ensuring competitive compensation to attract and retain the very best faculty
Together, MSCF and our supporters have a simple ask of you: expand the financial parameters for your bargaining team and direct them to come to the table with meaningful, substantial, and serious counters to our proposals. Amid a global pandemic, soaring inflation, millions in federal relief funds, and a record state budget surplus, the money is there and the time is now to dramatically improve conditions on our campuses for both students and faculty.
We expect the MinnState system to spend its money on proposals that address the needs of both students and faculty. We urge MinnState leadership and their negotiations team to seriously engage with our proposals to improve the lives of our faculty and students.