Maynard Seider

Faculty Association President Maynard Seider joined other union leaders in applauding Grant for backing the efforts by the Association of Professional Administrators and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees unions to get their contracts funded.

By Maynard Seider - December, 09 2004
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Maynard Seider is a sociology professor and president of the MCLA Faculty Association.He notes that the college union has resisted Board of Higher Education proposals that would pay only 3 percent over four years, weaken the faculty role in campus decision making and remove the agency fee provision, widely seen as a union-busting measure.

MCLA Faculty Association President and sociology instructor Maynard Seider had words of praise for Grant and her leadership abilities but was critical of the state and federal government on several fronts.
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Seider likened the MCLA financial issues, which include salaries and wages for instructors and staff, to the financial issues facing the North Adams Regional Hospital.Both entities serve the community and both have long-term and multi-generational employees, he said.

"During very difficult financial times, both the college and the hospital continue to serve the community," Seider said, and then noted what he perceived as a federal government failure to respond to the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Public colleges require the support of state and federal lawmakers, and efforts focused on "changing the priorities" of state and federal government must not diminish, he said.

Only through hard work will the state move upward from its designation as 47th out of the 50 states in government funding of state colleges, Seider said.

"More and more of us realize that we need a government that serves the needs of its people," Seider said.