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Newsletter March 2022
President’s Message Acienit id Our fallquatust semester started out with the crisis in Afghanistan. Now, as we near the mid-point the spring semester, the world faces another crisis with Vladimir ibustrumof ese-qui dem velles pro of te Ukraine. The daily images of the shelling of civilian targets and Putin’s invasion que nis nistreet fighting in cities are heartbreaking. Our fall clothing drive for Afghan maxim illaborae refugees was successful. Our colleague, Paula Holoviak, is very involved with the in et resectat et local community, and she said that the entire support effort locally is es Ukrainian as endus que being esticoordinated ut omnien- through the United Ukrainian American Relief Committee.
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https://www.uuarc.org/ ON PG. 2 APSCUF-KU members have stepped up before to help, and I know we will this time as well. On our campus, there is a group seeking our help right now as well. The food service workers on campus, who are employed by Aramark, have been seeking to form a union, something they have done successfully on several other campuses in the State System. Last Thursday, February 24th, the workers held a rally that was attended by about 40 food service workers and nearly a dozen APSCUF-KU members. Speakers at the rally described the difficult working conditions and the low morale among the employees. This is a group that was among the first furloughed during the pandemic, and many of them have no job security and no benefits. To support these members of the campus community, APSCUF-KU will be distributing buttons showing our support for food service workers’ efforts to form a union. Get a button, wear it, and show the people serving you at Starbucks or at the cafeteria that you support them. I’ve talked to leaders of the unionization effort, and they said that it will mean a lot to the rank-and-file members of the group to have our support—and to see it.