Don't Mess with NMSU Workers

July 19, 2006

Two weeks ago, the AFSCME organizing committee at New Mexico State University learned that a co-worker and union activist was going to lose her job because the university was eliminating her position. She was not offered any rights under the school's layoff policy and was not given any formal notice. Organizing committee members, now experienced with taking action, wrote a letter to the Dean and Human Resources Director, and had it signed by 40 Council 18 members. Their action moved the administration to respond to the worker and to our official request to bargain over the impact of the layoff. As a result, the future AFSCME member got another job and a promotion at NMSU, and will be around to fight for a strong union contract.