tl;dr some updates and clarifications about the stipend payment change, strategies to push back, and links to sign a petition, email HR, submit a testimonial, or donate to a support fund. Hi everyone, We’re writing to give an update
Bargaining survey, name change, committee and WG updates 📣
Short version: Please fill out the bargaining survey by August 14 to help determine bargaining priority and strategies! We’ve changed our name to Student Workers of Columbia (SWC) to better include undergraduate members! We have new elected committees! Here is
Changes to stipend payment
Hi everyone, Some of you may have received the email from head of Finance Dan Driscoll yesterday notifying many of us that our stipend payment structure will be changing. Many of us are used to receiving ⅔ of our stipends
Notice of Election for Communication, Process, and Records Committees
Columbia Student Workers! Our next General Body Meeting is scheduled for Monday, July 19th at 1:30 pm EST. The meeting will include a vote on the Communication, Process, and Records committees as required by our new bylaws; and a brief
New Union Contract Campaign Starts Now!
Tl;dr We have a new Bargaining Committee!! (1) Fill out this 5-minute survey to give input on bargaining strategy. (2) Sign up here to join a working group to draft contract articles. (3) Add this Google calendar to stay up
Election Results
Tonight at 9pm EDT the election ended and we announced the results on Zoom. 983 unit members participated in this election. The new bargaining committee consists of the following members: Ethan Jacobs Nadeem Mansour Laura Benoit Lilian Coie Colin Adams
Voting Starts Today
The voting period for the bargaining committee election and bylaws ratification has begun! The voting period lasts from June 19th at 9am EDT until July 3rd at 9pm EDT–please make sure to submit your ballot by that time. You should
Attestation and Late Pay
In May we formally voted to end our strike. If you are one of the many workers who chose not to attest until our strike has ended, you can email gradpayassist@columbia.edu in order to retrieve your wages and/or you can
Notice on Bylaws Ratification Vote
June 11, 2021 This is a notice concerning the upcoming vote to ratify GWC-UAW local 2110 unit’s first bylaws. We have reached a final proposal of the bylaws after 3 weeks of receiving input from the unit including holding 6
Final Week of Drafting Bylaws
We are in our last week of bylaw drafting. Our process working group is asking for feedback on their current draft articles through this form, based on a summary of the bylaws draft. The process working group will work on