{"id":3568,"date":"2020-03-19T17:56:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T17:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2020-03-19T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T17:56:02","slug":"workers-authorize-a-strike-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/2020\/03\/19\/workers-authorize-a-strike-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Authorize a Strike, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who voted in our strike authorization vote. Our strike authorization vote has concluded: <strong>out of 1910 valid ballots, 1833 (96%) voted YES, with 77 voting NO<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The last few weeks have been challenging, and we thank everyone for continuing to engage and participate with our union despite this ongoing crisis. We have a clear and decisive mandate from a majority of research and teaching assistants at Columbia, calling on our university to agree to a fair and strong contract. We have waited long enough and now it is more clear than ever that we need strong protections of a collective agreement.<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks to come expect to continue a robust discussion about the best next steps in our campaign for a first contract. Please be safe and <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSeUAQ-2IrKVCBEctKT33Oq3TXvcBOz1ojAYx4YAGpRbXmDzHg\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">let us know how your department or program is handling the consequences of the pandemic by filling out this quick survey.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to everyone who voted in our strike authorization vote. Our strike authorization vote has concluded: out of 1910 valid ballots, 1833 (96%) voted YES, with 77 voting NO. The last few weeks have been challenging, and we thank<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3569,"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\/3568"}],"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=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}