The bargaining session on February 10 focused on in-depth discussions around Compensation and Union Rights. While it is a good sign that the University has started to pass responses and engage seriously on these two topics, we continue to pressure

This bargaining session on January 28 was dominated by an animated discussion over discrimination and harassment, and Columbia’s team made it abundantly clear that they prioritize retaining the sole power to decide the outcome of discrimination and harassment complaints above

At our last bargaining session, we followed up on a few ongoing issues before exchanging contract proposals with the University. With regards to the Department of Justice’s last-minute attempts to change Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the University

At our most recent bargaining session on January 14 we first heard from the Executive Vice President of Finance Anne Sullivan who provided information regarding some of the financial challenges currently facing the University. The report that we heard from

We had our first bargaining session of 2021 on Tuesday, January 12. Both sides introduced a number of revised proposals. Our discussions highlighted continued disagreements between GWC and Columbia, which we will continue to work through in future sessions. We

We started this session with a conversation with two representatives from Columbia Health, Dr. Michael McNeil and Dr. Richard Eichler. We pressed Dr. McNeil to follow up on items from our last conversation about Health Benefits and were given a

We began our bargaining session with the University on Tuesday, December 15 by following up on our previous inquiry on the allocation of CARES Act relief funds—the University did not have an update on this but indicated that they would

Our bargaining session on Friday, December 11 began with the University team explaining the COVID-19 pandemic’s negative effects on Columbia’s finances. They indicated that Columbia’s financial concerns will affect their bargaining positions on economic articles. They also offered to provide

We met with the University to continue contract negotiations on Wednesday, December 2, and jumped right into our discussion of proposals: Discipline and Discharge: We proposed a few revisions to our Discipline and Discharge article. We moved closer to Columbia’s structure