Given the success of last year’s Taxes Q&A Workshop, as well as the recent challenges faced by RAs and TAs across campus, GWC-UAW will host another tax workshop on March 28. Please rsvp here and click here to submit your
More int’l tax updates; sign petition; upcoming town hall
Columbia’s Human Resources sent out another e-mail on Monday with additional guidance on how to fix our 2014 tax bills. If you didn’t receive it, read the full e-mail here. After many of us spent hours on the phone with
Sign our petition! Columbia can still do better on int’l tax problems
Columbia still needs to do better! Since Tuesday night, when Columbia finally tried to give clearer advice on how to handle their mis-reporting of taxes for international grad workers, many of us have called the IRS. Many grad workers who
Progress on int’l taxes; NLRB update; upcoming town halls
SIGN THE PETITION TO HELP INTERNATIONAL GRAD WORKERS RESOLVE TAX ISSUES We have an important update on our NLRB case below, but since the international grad worker tax issues are extremely urgent, that update comes first in this email INTERNATIONAL
New York elected leaders urge Columbia to take action on international graduate worker tax problems!
Today State Assemblywoman and Chair of the New York Higher Education Committee Deborah Glick, State Assemblyman Daniel O’Donnell, State Senator Bill Perkins, and Councilman Mark Levine signed onto a letter citing Columbia’s negligence in handling the international student IRS bills and
Sign now to tell Columbia to address international tax problems
Sign here to support international grad workers on taxes! Since we have yet to receive any authoritative response from Columbia on our meeting with Dean Alonso last week, the GWC-UAW International Student Working Group has now started a petition to
Update on international RA/TA tax concerns
Thank you to everyone who came to our emergency meeting today on tax concerns for international RAs and TAs – we had a packed room from across Columbia representing GSAS, Engineering, Lamont, and CUMC, and, because of our extreme disappointment
Emergency Tax Meeting!
Still waiting for your 2014 tax refund? Now you have a letter from the IRS saying you owe money? International students across campus have received letters from the IRS informing them that they owe hundreds or even thousands of dollars
Ongoing Successful Work on International Student Issues
Yesterday, Dean Carlos Alonso directly responded to our ongoing organizing by announcing a series of improvements through an email to all international students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. You can read the full text of his e-mail
Union Town Hall This Friday!
Come to our first GWC-UAW town hall of 2016 this Friday! Like previous town halls, this one offers a great opportunity to learn more about the union and our successes so far, ask questions, and to discuss next steps in