{"id":3661,"date":"2018-03-26T15:37:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T15:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2018-03-26T15:37:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T15:37:26","slug":"strike-authorization-vote-starts-4-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/2018\/03\/26\/strike-authorization-vote-starts-4-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike Authorization Vote Starts 4\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In February, we published an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/sav\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">open letter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> announcing our commitment to organize for a strike authorization vote if Columbia refused to begin bargaining with us. Provost Coatsworth <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/2018\/03\/03\/provost-responds-to-our-strike-vote-plans\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">responded<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, exhorting us not to strike because of the massive effect withdrawing our labor might have on teaching, scholarship, and research at Columbia\u2014and implicitly acknowledging that the university does, in fact, rely on our labor. But Provost Coatsworth, and the rest of the administration, refuse to do the one thing that would be certain to avert a strike: sit down and bargain with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have waited long enough.<\/span><b> Our strike authorization vote will be held from Monday, April 2 through Friday, April 13. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voting will be held in-person at the following locations as well as through a moving ballot box that can be followed on <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/gwcuaw\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our twitter account<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morningside: 10am to 4pm, Nous Cafe\/\/Graduate Student Center in Philosophy Hall<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CUMC: 12pm to 2pm and 5 to 7pm, Hammer Health Sciences Building Room LL1-104<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lamont: 11am to 2pm (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday\u2019s only), Graduate Student Lounge in the Cafeteria Building. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manhattanville: 12pm to 2pm, Jerome L Greene Science Center Main Lobby.\u00a0Please note, on April 10 we will be on the 5th floor.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If you cannot make it to campus for the vote (ie: attending a conference, conducting research outside of the city, etc.) <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/nIi1m7cLBUXCX9me2\">please let us know here<\/a>. We will contact you with further instructions on how to vote. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We urge all of you to come out and vote. This is our chance to make our voice heard loud and clear to the administration, and to declare forcefully that unless they obey labor law and respect our democratic vote by bargaining immediately, they can expect a strike to follow. Let us all with one voice urge Columbia to begin bargaining before we are forced to call a strike, but let us also make clear that we refuse to allow the administration to delay any longer. The time is now.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Eligible voters<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be Columbia graduate and undergraduate students who have signed a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/signup\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GWC-UAW authorization card<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and are currently employed by the university, previously employed by the university, or expect to be employed by the university in one of the categories outlined by the NLRB decision (i.e. graduate and undergraduate Teaching Assistants, Teaching Fellows, Preceptors, Course Assistants, Readers, Graders, Graduate Research Assistants [including those on Training Grants], and All Departmental Research Assistants). If you meet the above criteria and have not signed up for the Union previously, you would be able to do so at the polls in order to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Know before you vote!<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bf112f248486fb48a139e6aa2&amp;id=9317a9211a&amp;e=c38b2285de\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read our strike authorization vote FAQ.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact us at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:columbiagradunion@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">columbiagradunion@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if you have any questions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Come to a general body meeting:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monday, April 2, 7PM \u00a0\u2013 Avery Hall Room 114<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CUMC TBA<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bf112f248486fb48a139e6aa2&amp;id=3954f4473c&amp;e=c38b2285de\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get more involved with your union<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and make a plan with your colleagues to turn out the vote!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2803 colorbox-3661\" src=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GWC_SAV_VOTE-YES-20180326.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GWC_SAV_VOTE-YES-20180326.png 800w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GWC_SAV_VOTE-YES-20180326-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GWC_SAV_VOTE-YES-20180326-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GWC_SAV_VOTE-YES-20180326-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GWC_SAV_VOTE-YES-20180326-270x270.png 270w, https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/GWC_SAV_VOTE-YES-20180326-230x230.png 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, we published an open letter announcing our commitment to organize for a strike authorization vote if Columbia refused to begin bargaining with us. 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