LETTER: UNM faculty ask admin to bargain with grad worker union
UNM Faculty | August 30On Aug. 17 the New Mexico Public Education Labor Relations Board ruled that graduate employees are public employees and eligible to collectively bargain under the state's Public Employee Bargaining Act. The University of New Mexico community will be rallying Sept. 3rd at 11 a.m. between the Student Union Building and Mesa Vista calling on the UNM Administration to respect this ruling and begin negotiations as swiftly as possible. We, the undersigned faculty, ask the UNM administration to recognize and collectively bargain with the graduate employee union — the United Graduate Workers of UNM (UGW). An overwhelming majority of graduate workers legally authorized UGW to represent them last fall, yet the UNM administration has yet to come to the bargaining table.
