Since our victory winning back union rights, we have experienced a huge outpouring of support, including massive media coverage of our historic campaign. Hundreds of us have already committed to vote “yes” for GWC-UAW in the upcoming unionization election. As
BREAKING: You’ve just won the right to a union!
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
More improvements to our working conditions!
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
Improvements at Columbia; Exciting Tax Update
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
Tower’s 2 and 3 Tenants! End of the semester meeting, happy hour, be a part of history!
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,
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