Thank you to everyone who participated in the recent GWC days of action and other efforts pushing University administrators and elected leaders toward a more just distribution of resources as the COVID-19 crisis continues. Together we have made some progress towards improving our lives as workers, students and tenants at Columbia, but we still have a long way to go to guarantee a sustainable University and community for all.<\/p>\n
Urgent:<\/u><\/strong> Graduate students and postdoctoral workers from across the country are joining forces by urging Congress to help sustain our universities. Please click here to send a letter (in a few easy steps) to your Congressional representative<\/a> and tell them to fund university workers: increase funding for research, support international students and scholars, and safeguard financial aid.<\/p>\n Before focusing on fights that lie ahead, let\u2019s look at highlights of what we have accomplished at Columbia so far:<\/p>\n Despite these steps forward, Columbia has not fully addressed a variety of issues we face as students and workers since the start of the pandemic. Continuing priorities include:<\/p>\n As we move into the summer and toward next academic year, it will be more important than ever that we fight on all fronts. The University is making decisions about reopening research labs and expanding the academic year to three semesters, but they have yet to provide meaningful answers to how health and safety, workload, job assignments, and childcare will be prioritized for workers. Columbia continues to show a preference for determining conditions of employment with little to no participation from not only just GWC, but all of the unions on campus. While bargaining continues and the urgency of reaching an agreement on our first contract becomes increasingly profound, we will also continue to demand that we as a Union have a say in the more immediate matters affecting the well-being of all workers at this University.<\/p>\n — GWC-UAW Local 2110 Bargaining Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thank you to everyone who participated in the recent GWC days of action and other efforts pushing University administrators and elected leaders toward a more just distribution of resources as the COVID-19 crisis continues. Together we have made some progress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,5,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/LOGO-PNG.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682"}],"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=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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