Contract Negotiations & Information Meetings

SHARE enters contract negotiations with hospital management this week. We'll have an ongoing series of information meetings to keep you up-to-date. This week there will be meetings at the following locations:

• CBO 5th floor conference room: Tuesday (8/9), noon-1pm
• Memorial conference room 1: Thursday (8/11), 11:30-1:30

You should receive a postcard in the mail this week listing more of the meetings to come. It looks like this:

We'll add more dates! Keep checking this blog!
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SHARE Office Power-Outage

This is just a quick note to let you know that the SHARE office has been without power for the past 36 hours or so. We've contacted the electric company to get the problem fixed. In the meanwhile, our computers, phones, and voicemail system are down. If you or your co-workers have been trying to reach us, we're sorry for the hassle. Hopefully this will be fixed this afternoon. Email is probably the best way to reach us right now, since we can check that remotely. Thank you . . . 

Even More College Scholarship Opportunities . . .

are available to SHARE members through the AFL-CIO "Union Plus" progam. Click here for details.

College Scholarship Opportunities

The SHARE office recently received announcements about two scholarship opportunities for our members. Both scholarships are open to children and grandchildren of SHARE members who will be graduating from high school this Spring, and attending college in the Fall 2011.

• The Central Massachusetts AFL/CIO Scholarship Award -- Five $1000 scholarships, plus several $500 awards, to be drawn by lottery. (Submission deadline May 1, 2011) We posted previously about this scholarhip on our blog here.
• The 14th Annual AFSCME Council 93 M. Michael Botelho Scholarship Award -- $1000 Scholarship. Applicant must complete a 500-750 word essay entitled "Unions have been important to my family because . . ." (Submission deadline June 1, 2011) 

For full details, please call the SHARE office (508-929-4020). Please provide your mailing address or fax number in order for us to send them to you, along with a phone number where we may contact you. 

Update: Information Meeting at the CBO

We have secured a room in the Guaranty Bank Building for our Information Meeting at the Central Business Office!

The meeting will be Monday, April 25th from noon to 1:30.  We'll be in the 4th Floor Conference Room.

SHARE Information Meetings, beginning THURSDAY

Over the weekend, the following announcement postcard went out to all SHARE members at UMass Memorial. Please note that our first Information Meeting is this Thursday at the University campus.

If you do not receive a postcard in your home mailbox this week and would like to verify your address with us, please give us a call (508-929-4020). Thanks!

Remembering Chris

A Celebration of Chris Flynn’s Life

 

Chris Flynn lived an amazing life, touching many of us profoundly. We are mourning our loss, and our hearts go out to her family.

We imagine Chris would tell us to dry our eyes, grab our friends by the hands, and remember her with love and humor. So that’s what we’re planning to do.

We invite you to drop by for a few minutes, share favorite stories about Chris, have a cup of coffee, and write something in her Memory Book.

Memorial Campus

Tuesday, March 29          2-4pm       Memorial 1 conference room (1st floor, near the cafeteria)

University Campus

Wednesday, March 30      2-4pm     University campus (Endosurgery Conference Room, H1-776, administrative corridor)