On Monday, August 19th, we met with Columbia’s bargaining team at Lerner Hall to present a counterproposal on Discipline and Discharge and further negotiate Employment Files and Training. In addition, a student worker testified about her experience seeking dental care
Bargaining Session #15: The Last Days of The 100 Plan
On Wednesday, August 14th, we met with Columbia’s bargaining team at the Studebaker Building to present counter-proposals on Employment Files, Holidays, and Paid Leaves. Wednesday was the last day student assistants were covered under the Student Health 100 Plan, and
Bargaining Session #14: Health Care is a Human Right
Solidarity, student workers! We hope you’ve been keeping cool in the sizzling heat of the past week. The GWC bargaining committee kept their cool (the room was incredibly cold, actually) during a four-hour bargaining session with Columbia’s representatives on Tuesday,
Healthcare Working Group Newsletter Volume 1
Bargaining Session #12: GWC Demands Columbia Reinstate Critical Health Plan
Student workers! Here’s a summary of our latest bargaining session — June 21, 2019: We demanded that Columbia rescind the elimination of the Student Health 100 Plan, which hundreds of student assistants currently benefit from. Columbia’s bargaining team insisted that
Statement on U.S. Department of State’s social media visa policy
On 31 May, the U.S. State Department formalized and implemented a policy requiring that nearly all visa applicants provide five years’ worth of social media account information, email addresses, and phone numbers in order to be allowed entry to the
Trump trying again to stop our movement
We learned last week that the Trump majority on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is attempting to curtail our status as workers. The NLRB plans to take advantage of the federal rulemaking procedures to revisit our historic 2016 NLRB
Session #9 – Non-Discrimination and Harassment and Other Proposals
Last Monday, May 13, we met with Columbia’s bargaining team in Lerner Hall to present a significant contract article — Non-Discrimination and Harassment — and several counter-proposals — Severability, Union-Management Committee, Employment Files, Job Posting, Appointment Notification and Job Description,
Summer Bargaining Referendum Results
Here are the results of our GWC-UAW summer bargaining referendum. Thank you to everyone who participated. In total there were 777 ballots cast, 723 of which were valid. Shall GWC-UAW bargain over the summer (between the last day of spring
Introducing Nondiscrimination and Harassment
This Monday, May 13 (Broadway Room, Lerner Hall, 1-5pm) our bargaining committee will be presenting language to Columbia designed to to address issues of harassment and discrimination through our contract’s grievance procedure. Hierarchies and power imbalances within academia leave graduate