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AFSCME Maryland tells subcommittee contract gains won but local compliance, outsourcing and marketing spending remain concerns
Summary
An AFSCME Maryland representative said the union’s first master contract with USM secured conversions for contingent staff and modest wage increases but reported compliance problems at campus level, called for full funding of wage increases, and urged scrutiny of outsourcing and marketing contracts.
Dionne (Dionne) Williams, a contract administrator at the University of Maryland College Park and a representative of AFSCME Maryland, testified to the House Appropriations Committee Education and Economic Development Subcommittee on behalf of more than 6,000 higher‑education workers.
Williams said the union secured its first master contract with the University System of Maryland after more than two years of negotiations and that the agreement includes provisions…
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