AMHERST — The resident assistants and peer mentors union at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has voted by a 95% margin to permit its bargaining team to formally refuse to work under the reopening conditions outlined by the university, which the union says endangers employees and the community.
In a letter to UMass Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, Nat Luftman, Alice Troop and James Cordero, co-chairs of the Resident Assistant/Peer Mentor Union of UAW 2322, said that the university must bargain with the union to ensure safe working conditions — if not, they told Subbaswamy, “your reopening plan is in danger of being canceled.”