EMU-AAUP sent around the following email to faculty, but I’m assuming these are petitions that can be signed by any legal voter in the state:
We really need your help. It is important that we support the Protect Our Jobs campaign. Protect our Jobs is the campaign run by the AFLCIO with all the other unions in the State to get the right to have collective bargaining in the State’s constitution.
The MIAAUP has a seat at the Labor Table which is running the campaign. The campaign needs to gather 500,000 signatures from Michigan citizens. Without collective bargaining at EMU, you would not have the benefits you have. Many of you have been helped by the union – please give back.
The EMU-AAUP has promised to collect 700 signatures – one signature per member. The MIAAUP has hired a student to intern for us and help organize this campaign at the local level. His name is Daniel Routley and he is an Economics major at EMU.
We have a goal of 12 signatures per faculty member – which is getting one petition completed. Daniel will be at the following locations and would like you to come get a petition on Monday, May 7th, and then return the petition on Wednesday,May 9th. We only have until July 1 to complete this campaign.
For next Monday, May 7th, Daniel will be at the following locations:
8:45-9:45 Pray Harrold
9:45-10:45 Porter-Marshall
10:45-11:45 Library
5:00-6:00 COB
He will return to the same places and same times Wednesday, May 9th to collect the petitions.
I think I signed this earlier, but I’ll definitely try to take a look at it again. Of course, the timing is kinda bad since lots of people who would be around at these times a couple weeks ago aren’t around now. Anyway, if you see this petition and you believe in the right for workers to organize, take a few minutes to read it and sign it– faculty-type or not.