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Welcome Ashley!

by Margaret Butler, Executive Director Next week, our new Executive Director Ashley Bromley will start to transition into her position. Please join me in welcoming her to AAUP. Ashley brings four years of staff experience at the Coalition for Graduate Employees at Oregon State. She got hooked on organizing in her first year of a graduate program in Geology at OSU and became a leader in the union. As the Geosciences Department representative she was able to lead an organizing effort that got to 100% union membership and maintained it. As the VP for Organizing of CGE, she established a…

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Legislative Update

by Margaret Butler, Executive Director The legislative session has moved quickly, with most bills we are interested in already being heard or about to be heard. The key issue, funding, will not be worked out until the very end of the session. In the meantime, your legislative committee has been busy going through bills, recommending positions, and helping draft testimony. Both President José Padín and Vice President for Political Action-Elect Ramin Farahmandpur have testified on pending legislation. VP for Political Action Erna Gelles and United Academics’ Joe Lowndes, chair of the local’s State and Higher Education Issues Committee, have also…

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