EMUFT is a member-driven organization. This means that unlike many other unions, EMUFT is not a professionalized union. Instead we all are the union. All of our voices are important to ensure the best working conditions and a thriving community of educators. One way to make your voice heard is by joining a committee or subcommittee. Your input is needed! Your insights and opinions matter! We all have unique skills, talents, ideas and experiences. By sharing these with your community through a committee, you can make a real difference! To express your interest and join a committee, contact emuft9102@gmail.com
Communication Committee
The Communications Committee develops procedures and plans for effectively communicating the Union's goals, values, activities, and achievements both to the Union membership and the wider community. Projects:
Communicate important contract dates and elements through "Get to Know your Contract"
Engage and orient new lecturers with the information and resources they need when they start teaching at EMU with our "Digital Welcome Basket"
Ensuring that members are kept in the loop through various channels of communication (Emails, Facebook, Twitter)
organizing committee
Member organizing is one of the keys to being a powerful force for positive change on campus. The more of us get involved, the more diverse and powerful our voice will become. As such, the Organizing Committee develops and oversees the education, training, and mobilization of members. Projects:
The Grievance Committee works with the Stewards in the resolution of contractual and non-contractual disputes in the workplace, maintains records of grievances and their disposition, is responsible for responding to and resolving grievances and disputes beyond the immediate work location, and makes recommendation to the Union Council regarding disputes to be taken to arbitration or civil remedy. Projects:
Supporting members through the grievance process
Ensuring member understanding of their contract
bargaining Committee
Bargaining CommitteeThe Bargaining Committee oversees the development of a bargaining platform and engages in collective bargaining. While this committee is arguably one of the more labor intensive - certainly in terms of emotional investment during bargaining - there are many ways to be engaged. The more people join the team, the more manageable the individual work pieces. Do you have a talent to analyze budget sheets? Are you a public health care professional? Do you have an analytical mind? What about your ability to debate or solve conflict? These and many more skills are needed on the bargaining team. Subcommittees:
Bargaining Roadmap Committee - This subcommittee explores various contractual elements in preparation of collective bargaining
Campaign Action Committee - This subcommittee plans campaign and escalation actions during bargaining
Social Justice committee
The Social Justice Committee is brought together by a collective goal of increasing social responsibility and awareness of social justice issues impacting EMUFT members within the wider EMU campus community. Projects:
Support members who have faced discrimination
Help create campus wide awareness of the realities that minorities face daily and a culture of inclusion
Work with local organizations and student groups to advance the causes of social justice
Work towards helping create university wide policies that encourage diversity and are welcoming to all people
Serve as an ally to students that express experiencing cultural-related discrimination/injustice
elections committee
The Election Committee shepherds the membership through the process of our annual election of Union officers by making election announcements, calling for nominations, implementing the election via the chosen platform, and verifying/certifying the election results. Projects:
Union officers election in April
EMUFT Lecturer distinguished teaching award committee
The EMU-FT Lecturer Distinguished Teaching Award Committee ensures that EMU Lecturers are appropriately recognized for the outstanding work performed on campus. Projects:
Bolster awareness of the awards among the EMU community
Encourage Lecturer nomination and application
Recruit other EMU Lecturers to the committee
Review Lecturer nomination packages and applications
Select the Full-time Lecturer to be nominated to the Provost for award recognition
Select the six Part-time Lecturers to be nominated to the Provost for award recognition
EMUFT Labor Lives Scholarship committee
The EMU-FT Labor Lives Scholarship provides financial assistance to deserving, labor-aware EMU students. It is administered through the Scholarship Committee. Projects:
Bolster awareness of the scholarship among the EMU community
Develop the scholarship eligibility criterion annually
Determine amount of award to be offered, based on endowment fund earnings available, annually
Encourage student application
Recruit other EMU Lecturers to the committee
Review applications
Select the recipient
Work with EMU Financial Aid to ensure student’s receipt of funds
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