Location:
Boston, MA
UE seeks a national staff union representative for a higher education assignment. The position includes bargaining, local union leadership development, internal and external organizing, and grievance handling for bargaining units in the higher education industry.
Responsibilities include:
- Assisting with contract negotiations
- Assisting UE locals with developing and maintaining workplace leadership structures
- Training members, stewards, and rank -and-file local officers
- Assisting UE locals with developing and executing escalating issue campaigns
- Assisting UE local unions with grievances and contract enforcement
- Developing coalition and political action work
- Working on new organizing campaigns
- Other duties as needed
Qualifications:
- Commitment to working class and rank-and-file leadership development
- Effective interpersonal and group communication skills – listening, spoken, and written
- Ability to organize and maintain accurate worksite and campaign activity information
- Strong analytical skills
- Strong personal organization
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work under pressure with minimal supervision
- Capacity to establish and cultivate relationships with people from diverse backgrounds
- Experience as a union representative and/or organizer preferred.
The salary for this position is $64,097.30 per year. Irregular hours, travel, and weekend work are an essential part of the job. Benefits include excellent health care and retirement funding and a substantial car allowance (must have own car for travel). People of color and women are strongly urged to apply.
Interested? Please email your resume and cover letter to jobs@ueunion.org.