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.