As momentum continues to grow in the academic labor movement, GWC-UAW joined graduate workers from across the Northeast in a huge Commencement rally at Yale on Monday urging the administration to recognize and bargain with their graduate employees’’ union, Local
We started off this week’s organizing meeting with report-backs from Columbia’s 2017 graduation week, where GWC volunteers handed out fliers and buttons to graduates and their families, undergrad TAs marched onstage with a Graduate Workers of Columbia banner, and a
Sign up to get on the bus to Yale here! As you know, Columbia’s administration has spent the last six months refusing to accept our overwhelming “UNION YES” vote in December’s election. But it’s not just Columbia: Graduate workers across
This evening we met in Buell Hall on the Morningside Campus. We drafted a statement of solidarity with our TA and RA colleagues at the University of Chicago and their ongoing fight to unionize. They just filed with the NLRB
We are proud to announce that the bargaining goals have been ratified with 91% of the vote, with 1,307 workers voting (1,188 yes to 119 no). We now have all the components in place to bargain with Columbia…except a willing