Huge news! We just won back our union rights thanks to a sweeping decision today by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Read the full decision here. Today’s decision means we will likely have an opportunity very soon to vote
Working together across campus, we keep getting Columbia to do better! Provost Coatsworth sent another email Friday announcing improvements to graduate compensation. In addition to a 3.75% increase next year in most schools, Provost Coatsworth has announced the intention of
CROSS-CAMPUS ORGANIZING AND ADVOCACY LEADS TO MAJOR NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR FUNDED PHD WORKERS On Monday, Provost John Coatsworth and Engineering Dean Mary Boyce emailed PhD students detailing exciting new and improved benefits, which resulted from all our work together to
This is what democracy looks like. After multiple delegations to administrators and more than 1,000 petition signers pushing Columbia to do better, international student workers received the following from the IRS: “Any refund due, along with any interest provided by
The semester is coming to an end and we want to thank everyone for another great semester of organizing and building our union. This semester we held town halls and department meetings in over half of the departments on campus,
We have great news about more progress on the international tax issue! Columbia just announced several major steps forward in addressing the problems they created by misreporting our tax deductions to the IRS for 2014. In case you did not
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
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
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
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