Subject: Feb. 17 BHE Meeting at QCC
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005
From: "Margaret Wong"

Hello Fellow Board of Director Member:

At the last Board of Directors meeting some of you expressed willingness and/or interest in supporting QCC's Feb. 17 effort to "encourage" the BHE to work with (rather than against) the MCCC on contract negotiations. The BHE will arrive at our campus between 9:00a and 9:30a (the meeting starts at 9:30a). We plan to have as great a show of force as possible in terms of a "sit-in" in the meeting itself and an informational picket to usher BHE members on to campus and into the building where the meeting will be held.

If we can possibly get some support from other MCCC members from other campuses, this effort will be more effective.

The Worcester Telegram and Gazette and the Boston Globe may be there as well as other news media. This is an opportunity both to influence the BHE and to get the word out there with regard to what has been and is happening to us.

Please spread the word to your unit members about this action and encourage them to join us if possible. It would be greatly appreciated. Interested individuals can contact me or QCC's chapter president, Marilyn Martin (marilynm@qcc.mass.edu; 508.854.4374) for more information.

Margaret Wong
MCCC Board of Director Member
Quinsigamond Community College
508.854.2767 mwong@qcc.mass.edu