To take action in support of the Labor Center, please sign our petition and write a letter to the following UMass administrators:

Dean John Hird: jhird@umass.edu
Provost Katherine Newman: ksnewman@umass.edu

To protect the Labor Center’s future and prevent the same kind of death by a thousand cuts that so many other university labor centers around the country have already experienced, we demand the following from the UMass administration and Board of Trustees:​

• Teaching Assistant or Research Assistant positions for full-time graduate students who need them 
• Externship positions for graduate students who need them, so that the Labor Center can accept working-class and diverse students who can’t pay out-of-state tuition 
• Centrally funded part-time faculty positions to deliver the full curriculum including Labor Law, Collective Bargaining, Labor Economics, and other key courses. 
• Centrally funded staff positions that are dedicated to the Labor Center 
• Faculty governance of the Labor Center—not by the Sociology department or the dean's office—and the right of faculty to choose the next director
• A commitment that the Labor Center is an integral part of the University's educational mission, not just a profit center to subsidize other programs.