Healthcare Working Group Newsletter Volume 1
Bargaining Session #13 : An offer from Columbia we *can* refuse!
On July 11th, we met with Columbia’s bargaining team to continue negotiating our first union contract. Highlights: We presented our revised proposals on Training, Workload and Appointment Security. Columbia presented a comprehensive updated package of proposals consisting of mostly non-economic
Bargaining Session #13 : An offer from Columbia we *can* refuse!
On July 11th, we met with Columbia’s bargaining team to continue negotiating our first union contract. Highlights: We presented our revised proposals on Training, Workload and Appointment Security. Columbia presented a comprehensive updated package of proposals consisting of mostly non-economic
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
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
Bargaining Session #11: “There is No Columbia”
We met with Columbia’s bargaining team again at Studebaker on May 12th to present counter-proposals on Appointment Notification, Appointment Security, Union Access, Vacation, and Holidays and to discuss the status on a number of other proposals we made in previous
Bargaining Session #10: Columbia Refusing Real Recourse on Sexual Harassment
Our first session of the summer involved substantial back-and-forth with Columbia’s bargaining team over our Non-Discrimination and Harassment proposal, which aims to establish stronger protections and recourse for workers who experience sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination. We also
Bargaining Session #10: Columbia Refusing Real Recourse on Sexual Harassment
Our first session of the summer involved substantial back-and-forth with Columbia’s bargaining team over our Non-Discrimination and Harassment proposal, which aims to establish stronger protections and recourse for workers who experience sexual harassment and other forms of discrimination. We also
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