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
The response period to oppose the Trump NLRB’s attack on academic student workers’ union rights ends tomorrow. Click here to leave a response comment, comments are due by tomorrow, February 28 @ 11:59PM EST. To respond to a comment, go
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
Coronavirus and Racism on Campus Columbia University’s Office of Student Life stated in an email to the community on January 3 that it prioritizes “treating all in our shared community with respect and recognizing the dignity and humanity of each
WE WANT A STRONG CONTRACT! At the end of February will be one year since we began negotiations with the Columbia administration, and while we have agreed on a few things, we are still very far apart on some key
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
The Graduate Workers of Columbia-UAW organizing committee stands in solidarity with students and protestors in India and Hong Kong. We believe the defence of academic freedom, the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and association, and
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