Staff represented by Oakland University Custodial Maintenance Trades (OUCMT) are demanding a contract that reflects the real value of staff work.<\/p>\n
Workloads have increased. Campus square footage has expanded. Inflation has reduced the real value of wages.<\/p>\n
Yet staff compensation continues to fall behind.<\/p>\n
Oakland University has chosen to prioritize buildings, expansion, and other initiatives while failing to adequately invest in the staff required to support and maintain that growth. The result is burnout, declining retention, and the loss of experienced employees\u2014problems that are already affecting campus operations.<\/p>\n
Staff are essential to the University\u2019s success. Continuing to underpay staff while expecting more work is not sustainable and undermines the institution\u2019s long-term stability.<\/p>\n
OUMCT members remain committed to Oakland University. That commitment must be met with meaningful investment in staff, not continued delays or inadequate proposals.<\/p>\n
We are calling on Oakland University to return to the bargaining table with a contract that:<\/p>\n
Accounts for inflation
\nReflects expanded workloads and campus growth
\nProvides fair, competitive compensation
\nSupports retention and stability<\/p>\n
Fair pay is not optional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff represented by Oakland University Custodial Maintenance Trades (OUCMT) are demanding a contract that reflects the real value…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-173493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}