Category: organizing

• FAMCO Healthcare Bargaining Team Recounts the Fight for Fair Healthcare

  Last year, the Faculty Association of Monmouth University (FAMCO) concluded intensive negotiation with the Monmouth University administration, focusing on rectifying long-standing problems with healthcare plans and costs. This detailed account by bargaining team members Megan Delaney, Gabrielle Hackenberg, and Amanda Stojanov retells the strategic and collaborative efforts FAMCO faculty and bargainers undertook to challenge the…

  mufamco

  February 24, 2024

  bargaining, benefits, faculty, healthcare, news, organizing

  action, bargaining, faculty, FAMCO, healthcare, higher education, information request, negotiating, news, organizing, transparency concerns

• Monmouth University Hires New Lawyer, Still Won’t Deliver Health Benefits Info to Union

  

  The Monmouth administration has delayed providing important and necessary information for negotiating healthcare premiums for the upcoming final year of our contract with Monmouth University. In addition, the University has hired a new lawyer just to negotiate with FAMCO: John C. Romeo, whom Rider University brought in to bully their faculty union, as well. Despite…

  mufamco

  May 22, 2023

  action, bargaining, healthcare, news, organizing

  action, bargaining, faculty, healthcare, news, organizing

• FAMCO Wins AAUP Grant!

  

  Great news: FAMCO has been awarded the 2023 AAUP Mobilization Grant for $20,000! The funding from the AAUP grant will support our search for a new part-time field organizer who will help us coordinate next year’s contract campaign and our shift from business model unionism to social justice unionism focusing on  1-1 conversations, power analyses, and member education sessions. Take…

  mufamco

  March 10, 2023

  news, organizing

  news, organizing