{"id":1636,"date":"2016-11-28T17:45:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T17:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2016-11-30T17:59:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T17:59:16","slug":"1636","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/2016\/11\/28\/1636\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming Events + Provost Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

While we continue to wait for the Provost to accept our invitation to a town-hall-style debate with a pro-union graduate student, GWC-UAW supporters will be participating in a number of other discussions and forums on unionization as we lead up to our historic election. We encourage all voters to attend these events and inform themselves before voting on December 7 and 8, especially as the University has increased its efforts to persuade us to vote no as we approach the actual vote. Details for these events are below.<\/p>\n

We still hope the Provost accepts our invitation. In the meantime, in order to continue our efforts to promote factual information on unionization, we\u2019ve provided a new annotated version of the Provost\u2019s latest page on his website, \u201cKeep informed on the unionization debate.\u201d The GWC-UAW annotation offers a response, derived from existing practices in more than 60 unionized graduate schools across the US, to the arguments the Provost and other administrators have provided against unionization. <\/a><\/p>\n

While refusing our debate invitation so far, the Provost and other administrators have held closed-door meetings with department chairs and faculty, participated in one-sided town halls in all major areas of the University, sent emails to graduate students, and have continued to update their website opposing the union. As well, the administration in several parts of the university has distributed material from graduate students opposing the campaign, and while we respect the right of the university to communicate its views and to support the opinions of graduate workers opposed to the union, we believe it would be more fair if they disseminated information from both sides and we have requested that they do so in several locations. We are looking forward to their response to this request.<\/p>\n

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Upcoming Forums and Discussions on Unionization at Columbia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Monday, November 28, 6-8pm<\/strong>\u2014 Columbia University Student Unionization Panel (hosted by Student Affairs Committee of the University Senate) CUMC, P&S Building, Forum 1<\/p>\n

This panel will involve both pro-union and anti-union student representatives.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 29, 6-8pm<\/strong>\u2014 Engineering Graduate Student Council Town Hall
\nDavis Auditorium, in the Schapiro Center on the Morningside campus<\/p>\n

This forum will feature both pro-union and anti-union graduate workers.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, November 29, 6-8pm<\/strong>\u2014 CUMC Administration town hall on unionization, CUMC Hammer Building, room 401<\/p>\n

This will be a repeat of a CUMC administration town hall before the Thanksgiving break where administrators made arguments against unionization and handed out opinion pieces from anti-union graduate students (recently emailed to all graduate students at CUMC).<\/p>\n

Friday, December 2, 3-5pm<\/strong>\u2014 Columbia University Student Unionization Panel (hosted by Student Affairs Committee of the University Senate) Morningside, Jerome Greene Hall, room 104.<\/p>\n

This panel will involve both pro-union and anti-union student representatives.<\/p>\n

Monday, December 5, 4-6pm<\/strong>\u2014 Columbia University Unionization Panel with students and a representative from the administration (hosted by Student Affairs Committee of the University Senate) Morningside, Jerome Greene Hall, room 103<\/p>\n

This panel will include pro-union Columbia graduate students, an anti-union Columbia graduate student, a University of Connecticut graduate student who can speak to experiences having a union there, and a Columbia administration representative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While we continue to wait for the Provost to accept our invitation to a town-hall-style debate with a pro-union graduate student, GWC-UAW supporters will be participating in a number of other discussions and forums on unionization as we lead up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1638,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}