AFSCME 1072 on Withheld Raises and Layoffs at University of Maryland

AFSCME Local 1072 board member Krista Bulley, vice president Jen Patterson and at-large executive board member Patrick Trujillo discuss the University System of Maryland withholding a legally binding 2.5% merit increase and $500 base pay increase before Governor Moore directed USM to comply, the June 3 layoff of 73 bargaining unit members at UMD College Park — the institution’s first-ever mass layoff of state-funded positions with more than 80% union-represented — the grievance fight now at Step 3 at the Office of Administrative Hearings and the successor contract currently being negotiated with the system.