Tomorrow\u2019s the big day!<\/p>\n
JOIN US TOMORROW FOR OUR WORKERS\u2019 RIGHTS FORUM<\/p>\n Graduate Workers\u2019 Rights Forum Come hear fellow graduate workers from Columbia, Yale, and other universities testify to a panel of Congressional and other leaders about the impact of our administrators\u2019 continued refusal to respect democracy and bargain with our unions. The panel will include our Congressman Jerry Nadler and Congresswoman Grace Meng. Congresswoman Meng sits on the House Appropriations Committee and is a deciding member on federal science funding.<\/p>\n This will be our first opportunity of the school year to send a strong message to President Bollinger that Columbia needs to respect our choice and start bargaining! We hope to see as many graduate workers as possible in attendance to demonstrate our collective power and our commitment to negotiating our first union contract.<\/p>\n Please RSVP here.<\/p>\n OCTOBER GENERAL MEETING<\/strong><\/p>\n Our October General Meeting will be on October 2 (Monday) at 7PM, in Avery Hall Room 114. More information to come.<\/p>\n BARGAINING COMMITTEE VACANCY ELECTION<\/strong><\/p>\n Two of our bargaining committee members have graduated and stepped down. We will be having elections next month to fill their positions: one [1] spot in the professional schools and one [1] spot in the humanities and social sciences.<\/p>\n Important dates: More information to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tomorrow\u2019s the big day! JOIN US TOMORROW FOR OUR WORKERS\u2019 RIGHTS FORUM Graduate Workers\u2019 Rights Forum 10AM | September 20 (Wednesday) Broadway Presbyterian Church (114th and Broadway) Lunch will be served after the event. Come hear fellow graduate workers from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393"}],"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=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/2394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n10AM | September 20 (Wednesday)
\nBroadway Presbyterian Church (114th and Broadway)
\nLunch will be served after the event.<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSeptember 25 (Monday), e-mails to accept nominations will go out
\nOctober 5 (Wednesday), last day to accept nominations
\nOctober 19 (Thursday), election date<\/strong><\/p>\n