Legislative Update: Massachusetts Higher Education Contract Funding

We have good news to report on the funding status of our contracts for our members at the UMass Dartmouth (Local 507) and our members in Local 1067 working on campuses under the Board of Higher Education. Late this afternoon, Governor Baker filed the necessary legislation to fund the contracts. The process now moves to the legislature starting with the House of Representatives and then the Senate. Council 93 will be working in coalition with other public-sector unions to urge quick passage in the legislature in an effort to put these hard-earned, and well-deserved pay increases into the pockets of our members as quickly as possible. We will be posting updates here as the legislation moves through the process.