Budget Amendment ID: FY2024-S3-810

OTH 810

UMass Labor Institute

Messrs. Kennedy and Feeney moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, by inserting after section __ the following section: -

Section __: For the purpose of implementing the UMass Labor Institute to be housed at the four Labor Education Centers at Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell in order to expand labor education, research, and policy, and to coordinate the creation of a state-wide archive that will house materials documenting the rich history of working people in the Commonwealth; provided that the appropriation to create the UMass Labor Institute will be apportioned between the existing Labor Education Centers at UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth, and UMass Lowell; and provided further that no existing programs or funding shall be reduced as a result of this provision………….$4,000,000