UNI Communicators' Forum

SEIU Local 615, representing 5,000 workers in Higher Education in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, is soon to enter contract negotiations for over 500 service personnel at the Massachusetts Insitute of Technology (MIT).  There is a deep endowment crisis at MIT as there is at Harvard and other ivy league schools due to investments in toxic assets similar to the crisis in US Banks.  These negotiations have broad implications for how wages and benefits will be realligned across institutions in Massachusetts. 

Just an introductory hello and a first blogi on this site from Wayne in Boston.  I work as an Administrative Manager at Service Employees International Union Local 615, a property services union with 16,000 members.  I'm interested in member communication, union culture as it relates to innovation, organizational structure and, of course, digital technologies.