Blog Digest: Nomination Deadline NOON TODAY & Negotiations Update
Last Call for 2022 SHARE Rep and Executive Board Nominations
Find full details here: https://theshareunion.net/NominationsandElectionNoticeSHARE2022.pdf
If you know someone who would make a good rep, especially in a department that doesn’t have a SHARE rep, please nominate them. Someone from SHARE will call them to see if they accept the nomination.
Contract Negotiations Update
After meeting twice for training and ground-rules discussions, SHARE & UMass Memorial management’s negotiating teams met last Thursday for our first official negotiating session. You can read a more detailed report of that session online. Here’s an overview:
Both teams opened with introductory statements (described in the full post). SHARE’s opening statement focused on the results from our series of surveys earlier in the year, and on the need, now more than ever, for meaningful raises.
The teams got to know each other better with introductions from each individual negotiator, in which they described how long they’ve been working with UMass Memorial and/or SHARE, what they do in their current job role, and a bit about their life and interests outside of work. See the list of negotiators in the blog post.
Both teams are now preparing financial presentations as a prospective topic for the next negotiation session.
The SHARE 2022 Contract Negotiations Team: (kneeling, left-right): Kim Latrobe, Kellie Morton, Tracy O’Donnell; (middle row): Kathy Girouard, Jana Hollingsworth, Deb Clark, Christean Hughes; (back row): Janet Wilder, Rita Caputo, Deb Largesse, Jay Hagan, Deb Engvall, Carol Hehir, Kona Enders; (not pictured): AJ Iaconi, Armon Rad, Elisabeth Szanto, Kirk Davis, Tameka McDaniel-Vasquez