Purpose: We, the faculty and professional staff at the fifteen community colleges of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have organized into a politically active Union to protect the professional rights and advance the economic well-being and working conditions of our members, as well as maintain and improve the quality of education in our community colleges.
Objectives
- Engage in collective bargaining
- Promote livable, equitable, and competitive wages
- Improve salary and benefits
- Promote professional working conditions, including professional development opportunities, adequate resources, and safe working environments
- Ensure reasonable workloads and work schedules
- Protect professional rights
- Protect and maintain academic freedom
- Promote full-time employment
- Promote equitable employment conditions for part-time unit professionals and adjunct faculty
- Promote quality public higher education and integrity of curriculum
- Promote job security
- Promote political action through education and organizing