Since our August negotiation update, your UMPSA Negotiating Team has continued to bargain with the UMaine System (UMS) Negotiating Team, typically once a week or (unfortunately) once every other week. We have made progress on several items, tentatively agreeing to six...

Since our last update, your UMPSA Negotiating Team has continued to collectively bargain with the UMaine System (UMS) Negotiating Team, typically once a week or once every other week. Both sides have put all their proposals on the bargaining table, in writing, and we...

UMPSA will begin collective bargaining with the University of Maine System on May 23 on a new contract. In April, the UMPSA Negotiating Team met with System Labor Relations on several contract housekeeping issues. It also surveyed its dues-paying union members on...