AFSCME - The Temple News

Union threatens war in protest at TUH

19 May 2013 John Moritz

Union leader says employee strike is unlikely, but vows to take other action.

Twenty years past the picket lines

06 September 2010

The first day of the Fall 1990 semester was scheduled to be Sept. 4, the day after Labor Day – but classrooms remained empty.

Striking History

06 September 2010 Editorial Board

If the university isn’t careful with labor relations, history could repeat itself. In light of the 20th anniversary of the 1990 faculty strike, The Temple News [“Twenty years past the picket lines,” Page 1] talked

One battling union finds compromise

02 September 2009

Of Temple’s two employee unions that spent last year without contract, one is nearing an accord.

After firings, union members take to Hart’s front yard for protest

05 June 2009

In response to 19 firings at the end of May, members of AFSCME and TAUP unions orchestrated a protest in Center City’s Rittenhouse Square, where Temple President Ann Weaver Hart lives.

Contract Closure

17 March 2009 Editorial Board

Both sides of the contract disputes at Temple and its unions should compromise.

Letter: AFSCME responds to article

17 March 2009 Letter

To the editor: In an article dated March 3, 2009, Kathryn A. López wrote that Temple’s members of the American Federal, State, County and Municipal Employees union Local 1723 were “lashing out against their negotiation

Union Dissent

03 March 2009

Though Temple’s AFSCME union has been without a contract since October 2007, many union members are speaking out against union leadership on a listserv.

Professors’ union threatens strike, demands contract

20 January 2009

Two of Temple’s large unions may have means to strike this semester. The university’s American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees and the Temple Association of University Professionals have attempted to come to a

Mompremier vetoes Senate resolution

22 November 2008

TSG President Nadine Mompremier says the Senate failed to abide by procedural guidelines in passing a resolution that supports contract negotiations for TAUP and AFSCME.