Stony Brook RA Union

On Thursday March 4th, 2010 representatives of the Stony Brook RA Union spoke with U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer and Congressman Tim Bishop at the Long Island Federation of Labor annual dinner in Woodbury, LI. We informed the powerful elected officials of how the RF has been dragging its feet in settling a fair contract with us while wasting hundreds of thousands of tax payer dollars in various ways.  We provided them with this handbill.

On Sunday, February 21st 2010, representatives of the Stony Brook RA Union met with the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Stony Brook located just south of campus on Nicolls Road.  The meeting offered our representatives an opportunity to explain the RAs’ role within the University community, and to bring forth some of the struggles we have encountered in negotiating our first contract.  The Committee has expressed enthusiasm about working with us in the future, and we promised to keep them informed on the status of the negotiations.  The meeting was one of many we are having with various groups in the surrounding community in order to build support for the RA Union.

Pictured: Research Assistant in the Biomedical Engineering Department / member of the RA Bargaining Committee Kasia Sawicka, CWA 1104 Organizing Director Jim McAsey, and the Social Action Committee of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Stony Brook.