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
Intl Grad Workers Receive Refund Notices!
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
Huge progress on taxes; Columbia finally offers financial relief!
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
Taxes Q&A Workshop on Monday, March 28th!
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