Chancellor Subbaswamy needs to be reminded that UMass Works Because We Do! Calling all UMass grad students and friends! Come together and Drive Past his house HORNS BLARING to demand Summer Pay! Till then, inform yourself and your co-workers: read, sign, share the petitions below with many urgent demands beyond summer pay! Admin gave us fuck-all at the GEO bargaining table. We need to let them know we will hold them accountable, they have a responsibility to UMass workers!
WHEN: Meet today Sunday April 19th 2020, at 2:45pm
WHERE: Lot 44 UMass Amherst
WHAT: Gather first, then start driving at 3pm
FACEBOOK EVENT: here
Plan & instructions
- 2:45: Meetup in parking lot 44 on Eastman Lane (stay in car)
- 3:00 Begin:
- Turn Left onto Eastman Lane (west)
- First Left onto Thatcher Rd
- Drive down Thatcher past Life Sciences Laboratory
- Turn Left onto Chancellors drive BEGIN HONKING
- Turn Left onto Orchard Hill drive (wraps around parking lot)
- Turn Left onto East Pleasant street
- Take E Pleasant to traffic light
- Turn left on Eastman Lane
- Begin circle again
- Continue to drive loop again as time allows (before 4pm)
✅✅✅ CHECKLIST ✅✅✅
- Stay in car at all times
- Obey all traffic laws and signs, drive slow, tight line of cars
- If you can do it safely, take LOTS OF PICS/VIDEO
- Slow down even more on Chancellor’s Drive. Honk on Chancellor’s Dr. but not elsewhere
- NO CARPOOLING unless it’s people you already live with/share germs with
- Use whatever you have in your household to make at least one sign! Bigger = better. Use computer paper, cardboard, inside of a cereal box). Write in big letters, and tape your sign in back driver’s side window (facing Chancellor’s house)
What to do if you can’t come to the protest
- Make a sign anyway, post about it on social media
- #SummerPayForUMassGrads
- #SummerPay
- #NoCutsNoLayoffs
- #StopTheClock (for academic requirements)
- #NoAusterity
- #SwamyCanYouHearUs
- #universal1yr (for academic extension)
- #NeedToEatSummer2020
- Sign the Coalition Demands: https://cutt.ly/gradstudentdemands
- Sign the Demands of International Grad Students https://bit.ly/geointsign
- Add a GEO bargaining frame to your Facebook profile pic, here
- Organize and strategize with rank-and-file GEO members on Slack, here
The coalition is a group of grad student workers at UMass Amherst that has been working very hard in the last couple of weeks, and has produced a set of demands we are all fighting for together! GSS has officially signed off on these demands! Please read the TWO petitions linked below, sign BOTH, and share them as widely as you possibly can! Anyone can sign! The total number of grad students is about 6000. Make sure you share this with EVERYONE you know from UMass so we reach everyone, not just GEO members! Over 800 signatures reached already!
