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Respect. Fairness. A Voice. We are UTSF, the Union of Tenure-System Faculty at Michigan State University. #UnionNOW

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@michiganstateu @KevinGuskiewicz @Jeitschko

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No treats or truth from @michiganstateu admin 👻. Happy Halloween from UTSF! 🎃
@KevinGuskiewicz @Jeitschko

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Unions are stronger when we are together! We will never be silent under the administration of @michiganstateu. @untf_msu @GradEmpUnion @ASMSU #UnionStrong

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Shout out to @ASMSU for supporting tenure-system faculty members' right to organize and calling on MSU administration to stop stalling recognition. And another shout for all the great work that ASMSU does for students across the university!

[utsfmsu @utsfmsu]

UNTF and UTSF United! Join us now in the Hannah Admin Building to demand recognition of the BoT and outside at 11am to rally for recognition!

[Michigan State GEU @GradEmpUnion]

Will be there 🫡

[utsfmsu @utsfmsu]

Can we count on you to join our rally tomorrow? @GradEmpUnion @untf_msu @KevinGuskiewicz @thesnews @ScheerTheoJRN @sarahmatwood
@michellejokisch #UnionsForAll #UnionNow

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Stand with @utsfmsu and @untf_msu to demand unions recognition and faculty rights @michiganstateu. @GradEmpUnion #UnionNow #UnionStrong

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@utsfmsu demands @michiganstateu to recognize
our union through a card-check process as it promised in the neutrality resolution 3 years ago. Will you join us this Friday?

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Year after year, @michiganstateu administrators give themselves generous raises on top of their already sky high salaries, as tenure system faculty and librarian salaries lag far behind. Faculty won’t have a real say in our raises until we have a union with legal standing! @KevinGuskiewicz @Jeitschko #UnionNow

[Piotr Piecuch @PiecuchPiotr]

Great video! It has been >9 months since @utsfmsu reached a clear majority support for establishing a faculty union at @michiganstateu and filed for recognition with our Administration. Compare this with the timeline to establish Solidarity in 1980 in 🇵🇱 (https://t.co/VVH0AdwOfw.

[utsfmsu @utsfmsu]

Recognition of our union is not complicated despite what @KevinGuskiewicz and @Jeitschko want you to think. @michiganstateu should have recognized UTSF many months ago. Administration's foot-dragging is nothing more than a union-busting tactic, which doesn't serve the interests of our campus community or make MSU a better place. #UnionsForAll

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Having trouble keeping track of the lengthy process MSU’s administration has forced UTSF to follow to gain formal recognition of our union? No problem! We made a video timeline, documenting each of their unnecessary delays.

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We are stronger together! Become a union member now: https://t.co/Z2vu9a5fI8

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Having trouble keeping track of the lengthy process MSU’s administration has forced UTSF to follow to gain formal recognition of our union? No problem! We made a video timeline, documenting each of their unnecessary delays.

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Faculty deserve more than an advisory role. UTSF can strengthen academic governance and ensure faculty voices are heard loud and clear #UnionStrong #UnionsForAll

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Faculty deserve a real voice. A union means we can negotiate a legally binding contract, not just make requests. Together, we can ensure our rights and protections are enforceable. #UnionsForAll #UnionStrong

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Another faculty member shared: "It’s ironic that we pay so much overhead out of our research grants but get so little professional development support from the university. There’s not even stable fund for faculty to travel to a conference in my department."

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Regardless of what McKinsey reported to @Michiganstateu, faculty know one key change that will support research productivity @KevinGuskiewicz @Jeitschko: "Hire back the staff that used to help faculty submit and manage grants (you know, those things that you keep 56% of as overhead) so we can submit and manage more grants (that fund graduate students and undergraduate scholars in our labs)."

[utsfmsu @utsfmsu]

Yesterday, we focused on outdated research and physical infrastructure at @michiganstateu. Today, faculty share what they would do with $2M to support research and teaching at our university. One common request we heard @KevinGuskiewicz: “Invest in tenure-track faculty lines. Our working conditions are students' learning conditions and profs can better invest in creative & sustaining pedagogy when they don't also have to be looking for permanent jobs!”