Word: union
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...state union beat out the rival Professional Staff Organization by a vote of 686 to 83, according to the State Labor Relations Commission. Two hundred people voted against a union...
SEIU was put on the ballot after a group of professionals at the Amherst and Boston campuses, eager to avoid the mistakes of previous years, interviewed several unions. The rival union was put on the ballot by Gerald A. Quarles, head of a professional's non-union campus association...
Quarles had emphasized the oncampus origination of PSO and said he did not believe a two-union ticket would split the vote...
Professors, librarians, clerical workers, blue-collar workers and police at UMass already have union representation, but the group of about 1200 professionals, which include technicians, managers lawyers, nurses and architects, has been difficult to organize in the past, said Tom Sharpe, a SEIU spokesperson...
UMass administrators have indicated they don't want to begin laying off employees, but Casey said that will be a key concern of the fledgling union...