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In the last few months, our AFSCME Maryland bargaining team has gone back and forth with the University System of Maryland (USM) to secure our first unified contract, covering AFSCME-represented employees at institutions across the system. While this process hasn’t been easy, we’re excited to share that we’ve reached tentative agreements on over 100 different contract […]
On Thursday, February 22, the AFSCME Maryland Bargaining Team met with the University System of Maryland at UMBC for another bargaining session. During this session, we reached agreement on the following topics: Here are just a few of the priorities that remain outstanding: Our next bargaining session will be Monday, March 4 at the AFSCME […]
In January, the AFSCME Maryland bargaining team met with the University System of Maryland (USM) on Friday, January 19 and Thursday, January 25. In addition to the tentative agreements reached so far, the AFSCME Maryland team sent the following counters to the USM’s proposals: Below are the outstanding issues that remain: Our next bargaining session […]
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Tentative Agreement Reached!
If you are not an AFSCME member, you can join online here. Every person who joins strengthens our union and allows us to continue to win the pay increases and workplace changes we want to see. After nearly 4 months of negotiations, we are excited to announce that our bargaining team has reached an agreement […]
The AFSCME Maryland Bargaining Team has been working hard to reach a tentative agreement with the State before the December 31 deadline. We want to win the best deal possible for all of our members. While we were able to reach a tentative agreement on most of the new and existing articles in our last […]
Since our last bargaining update, we have had two bargaining sessions with the State: one on Wednesday, December 6 at the AFSCME Maryland office and another on Tuesday, December 12 at State Center. At the December 12 session, the State showed our team the results of a wage study regarding compensation for state employees. The […]
Last week, we had two bargaining sessions with the University System of Maryland (USM), one on Zoom on Thursday, December 7 and one in-person on Friday, December 8. After a marathon negotiations session on Friday that lasted until after midnight, we’re proud to say we’ve made significant progress in our negotiations! Some of the areas […]
Last week, we had a bargaining session with the State on Wednesday, November 29. Afterwards, we held our November State Bargaining Town Hall to recap how bargaining sessions have been going and what actions we need to take to win the contract we deserve. If you missed the town hall, you can watch a recording […]
So far, in November, we have had two bargaining sessions with the USM (University System of Maryland): one on Wednesday, November 8 and another on Tuesday, November 14. Both sessions took place in Baltimore in the AFSCME Maryland offices. As always, the AFSCME USM Bargaining Team is composed of AFSCME members who work at college […]
Last week, our bargaining team met with the State on Tuesday, October 24 at the AFSCME Maryland union hall in Baltimore. We were able to tentatively agree on some technical clean-up language, an increase in bilingual pay, standardization of rights for our bargaining team, and improvements to some language regarding chronic illness. Our AFSCME team […]
At the previous September 29 bargaining session, the University System of Maryland (USM) shared their financial figures and pledged that they intended to finally counter all of AFSCME’s proposals. In the October 17 session however, the USM failed to meet their own pledge and follow up with their own promises. By our count, the USM team has […]
On Wednesday, October 18, the AFSCME Bargaining Team met with the State’s Bargaining Team for our 4th bargaining session at the State Center in Baltimore. Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Helene Grady delivered a presentation about the administration’s budget priorities, the most recent state budget closeout report, as well as current budget forecasts. […]
Check out our recording of our October State Bargaining Town Hall. We talked about how bargaining is going with the State and how we can take action to win the contract we deserve. Take Action As we continue bargaining with the State, please join us in taking the following actions: It will take all of […]
In October, we have had two bargaining sessions so far: one on Wednesday, October 4 at State Center in Baltimore and another on Wednesday, October 11 at our union hall at the AFSCME Maryland Bush Street office in Baltimore. In these last two sessions, our AFSCME team gave comprehensive wage proposals to the State that […]
Our AFSCME Bargaining Team is made up of members from all regions of the state, all of our bargaining units, and across a variety of job classifications and will be representing us at the bargaining table. Below are the members of our AFSCME State Bargaining Team: Diane Williams, COMP Tia McCoy, COMP Jody Curry, COMP […]
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Summer Bargaining Update
In June and July, we had two in-person bargaining sessions with the University System of Maryland (USM), one at the AFSCME Maryland office in Baltimore on Wednesday, June 28 and another at Frostburg State University on Thursday, July 27. In both bargaining sessions, our AFSCME Maryland Higher Education Bargaining Team, made up of AFSCME members […]