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Last updated: 31 August 2021 at 12:00 PM
W 21 Jul ~ Message from MTA President and Vice President to MCCC
Merrie Najimy, MTA President, and Max Page, MTA Vice President
We are writing to you at a moment of great peril but also unprecedented opportunity for faculty, staff, and students across Massachusetts’ community colleges. Having won stable funding through the pandemic, having brought new attention to the needs in public higher education, and having won new funds from the federal government, together we have created the possibility of a major reinvestment in public higher education, with community colleges a key focus. We look forward to building more collective action with you to lead to more victories.
MCCC, along with all MTA higher ed local unions, is in contract negotiations, and together we are pursuing key legislation and funding initiatives in the Massachusetts legislature that can directly improve the lives of MCCC members and that of your students. That is why we need unity and solidarity, now more than ever.
Unfortunately, at this very moment, MCCC leaders are pursuing the possibility of disaffiliating from the MTA — that is, leaving the MTA to be an unaffiliated union, or have no union at all. Recent discussions of your MCCC Board, the hiring of an attorney, and the most recent MCCC newsletter, along with a “Fact Sheet” document circulated by some MCCC leaders, is alarming to us and to MCCC members. These actions are causing confusion and a rift at a time when transparency, democracy, and, most of all, solidarity, are needed.
We write to you to fill in missing information, share our thoughts, and invite you into a conversation about the work ahead.