We had a short and sweet meeting this week, beginning with report-backs about delegations scheduling meetings with Deans and about the bargaining table we’ve set up in front of Low. You may remember this table from the wintry days of
Organizing Meeting 20170629
A group of us marched with Congressman Jerry Nadler in Pride on Sunday! The letter in support of Georgette Fleischer and BCF-UAW was sent on Monday. A group of students in social sciences met with Alondra Nelson. She is stepping
Organizing Meeting 20170622
Georgette Fleischer, of the Barnard Contingent Faculty Union (BCF-UAW), came to speak to us at the start of this week’s meeting, to discuss her recent termination by Barnard after nearly two decades of adjunct employment. The group voted unanimously to
Organizing Meeting 20170615
We handed out flyers this week at the Committee on the Future of Voting meeting, after sending them our open letter last week. We also held our first organizer training of the summer, and plan to hold others to develop
Organizing Meeting 20170608
We began this week’s meeting with a report from Alumni Weekend’s actions, which included a full day of flyering, a lunchtime teach-in, and light projection at night. Professor Julie Crawford, the Chair of Literature Humanities, took a moment at the
Organizing Meeting 20170601
We had a short and sweet meeting this week, focusing on report-backs from various subcommittees to launch into our summer mode. We talked through ideas to bring public attention to the administration’s delay tactics and ask the administration to drop
Grad Workers Rising!
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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
Organizing Meeting 20170518
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
May 22: Come Support Grad Workers at Yale!
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
Organizing Meeting 20170510
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