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Bargaining and COVID-19 Updates from the Table Questions about mitigating the impact of COVID-19 measures on student workers topped the agenda of this week’s bargaining sessions. The responses we heard from Columbia on April 1 and April 3 amounted to
Dear student workers, First, the good news. We are close to tentative agreement on Holidays, Workload, and Intellectual Property. Now, the frustrating news. Columbia maintains their regressive position that grievances alleging discrimination or harassment by the University shall not be
Columbia has just made an outrageous and major move backwards in our negotiations over fair and timely protections against discrimination and harassment. This past Friday, February 21, the university bargaining team announced their withdrawal of their previous proposal allowing student
Bargaining update: The GWC bargaining committee met with Columbia’s representatives again this past Friday, January 31st. Here is a quick summary of what unfolded: We reached a tentative agreement on our Training article. Columbia and GWC both passed counters on
On Friday, we met with the CU bargaining team for our first bargaining session of the semester. It’s been almost a year since we began the process—you can check out the current status of all the articles, as well as
Student Workers, It has been two months since the GWC Bargaining Committee put all of our remaining contract proposals on the table. Despite the expectation that this would move negotiations forward, Columbia demonstrates continued failure to engage in what is
Student workers, We are at a turning point in our campaign to achieve a fair contract. The initial stages of the bargaining process involved carefully drafting each contract article in accordance with our democratically-ratified bargaining goals; listening to and gauging
Columbia Rejects Union Health Benefits for the Second Time We met with Columbia’s bargaining team on November 13 at Studebaker to continue our fight for a strong contract. This was our 19th bargaining session with the university since negotiations began
The Bargaining Committee met with Columbia’s representatives again on Wednesday, October 23, 2019 to continue bargaining for a strong contract. We presented our petition to create a fund for workers affected by Columbia’s unilateral and illegal elimination of the 100
The GWC bargaining committee met with Columbia’s representatives on Friday, October 18, 2019 to continue our efforts to secure a strong contract. We made progress towards reaching agreement on the Training article, including the inclusion of a provision that the