As usual, we began this week’s meeting with reports from organizing on the ground. We talked through questions and issues that had come up for graduate workers in different departments. Following on the university’s email about renewing health insurance for

We began this week’s meeting with reports from on-the-ground organizing. We’ve also started phonebanking to make sure as many people fill out the bargaining survey as possible. Our first Workers’ Meal is coming up next Wednesday, August 2nd—we’ll have one

We met uptown this week, and began with some great news: workers at The New School finally got their ballots counted, and won their union with a sweeping 99.6% YES vote. Their President has pledged to start working with them

We had a short and sweet meeting this week, beginning with report-backs about delegations scheduling meetings with Deans and about the bargaining table we’ve set up in front of Low. You may remember this table from the wintry days of

A group of us marched with Congressman Jerry Nadler in Pride on Sunday! The letter in support of Georgette Fleischer and BCF-UAW was sent on Monday. A group of students in social sciences met with Alondra Nelson. She is stepping

Georgette Fleischer, of the Barnard Contingent Faculty Union (BCF-UAW), came to speak to us at the start of this week’s meeting, to discuss her recent termination by Barnard after nearly two decades of adjunct employment. The group voted unanimously to

We handed out flyers this week at the Committee on the Future of Voting meeting, after sending them our open letter last week. We also held our first organizer training of the summer, and plan to hold others to develop

We began this week’s meeting with a report from Alumni Weekend’s actions, which included a full day of flyering, a lunchtime teach-in, and light projection at night. Professor Julie Crawford, the Chair of Literature Humanities, took a moment at the

We had a short and sweet meeting this week, focusing on report-backs from various subcommittees to launch into our summer mode. We talked through ideas to bring public attention to the administration’s delay tactics and ask the administration to drop

We started off this week’s organizing meeting with report-backs from Columbia’s 2017 graduation week, where GWC volunteers handed out fliers and buttons to graduates and their families, undergrad TAs marched onstage with a Graduate Workers of Columbia banner, and a