{"id":2228,"date":"2017-05-20T03:56:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T03:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2017-07-22T15:36:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T15:36:06","slug":"organizing-meeting-20170518","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/2017\/05\/20\/organizing-meeting-20170518\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizing Meeting 20170518"},"content":{"rendered":"

We started off this week\u2019s organizing meeting with report-backs from Columbia\u2019s 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 few brave organizers unfurled a \u201cWe Are Workers\u201d pennant in the middle of PrezBo\u2019s commencement address. The <\/span>Spectator<\/span><\/i> proclaimed this \u201can act of free speech.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

If you enjoyed this demonstration of grad worker solidarity on campus, you can join your fellow GWC members for more of the same at two upcoming events: <\/span>protesting unionbusting at the Yale Commencement <\/span><\/a>on May 22 and organizing alums at the Columbia alumni weekend June 1 – 4. Please get send us an email if you\u2019d like to get involved or hop on the 5.30 am bus up to Yale on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

We spent most of the meeting planning two summer initiatives to build organizing leadership and expand membership engagement across Columbia\u2019s campuses. The first is organizer trainings, which will be held on the Morningside campus on June 10 and 15. Organizer trainings are a great way to learn more about the union\u2019s history, to practice answering questions about the union, and to make a plan for talking about the union with other members of your department or lab. The second is a STEM campaign, which will be led by a subcommittee of STEM organizers. More details on both of these projects to follow in upcoming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, we\u2019ve switched to our summer meeting schedule! Weekly organizing meetings will now take place every Thursday from 6 – 7.30 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We started off this week\u2019s organizing meeting with report-backs from Columbia\u2019s 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228"}],"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=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}