Dear Colleagues, I work at Columbia University Medical Center, and I perform research on neurodegeneration and Alzheimer’s disease. Unfortunately, I and many of my colleagues have discovered the hard way that Columbia has woefully insufficient and ineffective mechanisms for addressing
Some international students have noticed that Columbia still appears to be charging us for the “International Services Fee,” even though Provost Coatsworth and Dean of Engineering Boyce told us in May that this fee would be “covered” as of Fall
Momentum keeps building for a grad union! Last week NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio became the latest high ranking elected official to strongly support a graduate union at Columbia. While speaking to attendees at the annual Working Families Party gala
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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