CONTRACT FUNDING UPDATE - MASSACHUSETTS HIGHER EDUCATION
We have good news to report on the status of legislative funding for the contracts between AFSCME Local 1067 and Massachusetts Board of Higher Education; and AFSCME Local 507 and the University of Massachusetts – Dartmouth. The House Ways and Means Committee has just moved the budget forward, trimming about $900 million in proposed funding by Governor Baker but retaining the funding for our contracts and approximately 40 other collective bargaining agreements. The budget could see action by the full house as early as tomorrow. As always, we continue to work in coalition with other public-sector unions to move the legislation along as quickly as possible and we will continue to post updates here as the legislation moves forward.