{"id":671,"date":"2015-10-06T18:53:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/?p=671"},"modified":"2015-10-06T18:53:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T18:53:49","slug":"save-the-date-1015-weareworkers-grad-worker-unionization-roundtable-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiagradunion.org\/2015\/10\/06\/save-the-date-1015-weareworkers-grad-worker-unionization-roundtable-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVE THE DATE: 10\/15 #WeAreWorkers Grad Worker Unionization Roundtable Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

GRADUATE WORKER UNIONIZATION: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

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DATE AND TIME<\/u><\/strong>: Thursday October 15th, 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.<\/strong>
\nLOCATION<\/u><\/strong>: Jerome Greene Hall 103 (Columbia Law School, 435 W. 116th St.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Over the past year and a half, graduate students at Columbia have been leaders in the graduate worker unionization movement that is rapidly spreading across the country. Although Columbia\u2019s administration has refused to engage with the strong majority of graduate workers who declared their support for graduate unionization in our card drive last fall, we are currently petitioning the National Labor Relations Board for recognition, and stand to overturn a decade-long legal precedent that prevents private university graduate workers from unionizing.<\/p>\n

On October 15th<\/strong>, over a dozen campuses across the country are holding coordinated events to publicly declare that We Are Workers<\/strong>. As part of this day of action, the Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC-UAW) will be holding a roundtable to discuss why graduate worker unionization matters not only at Columbia but also for the labor movement more broadly and for the future of academic labor.<\/p>\n

RSVP on our Facebook page: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/924233964320077\/<\/p>\n

Speakers will include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Geoffrey Aung (CC \u201808, PhD candidate, Anthropology and Graduate Workers of Columbia Organizer)
\nJune Benjamin (Barnard Support Staff Union, Local 2110)
\nCorin Coetzee (CC \u201816, Student-Worker Solidarity)
\nProfessor Suresh Naidu (Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Affairs)
\nProfessor Sonam Singh (Lecturer, Barnard Department of English and Barnard Contingent Faculty Union Organizer)
\nPlus workers from the Fight for $15 movement and local NYC politicians<\/p>\n

Joining us this October 15th in \u201cWe are Workers!: National Graduate Worker Day of Action\u201d:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Academic Student Employees-UAW, University of Washington
\nAcademic Association of University Professors (AAUP), Committee on Graduate and Professional Students
\nExecutive Board, Teaching Assistant Association-AFT, University of Wisconsin-Madison
\nCornell Graduate Students United-AFT, Cornell University
\nCUNY Adjunct Project, City University of New York-Graduate Center
\nGraduate Employee Organization-UAW, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
\nGraduate Employee Organization-UAW, University of Massachusetts-Boston
\nGraduate Employee Union-UAW, University of Connecticut
\nGraduate Employees Organizing Committee-AFT, Wayne State University
\nGraduate Student Organizing Committee-UAW, New York University
\nGraduate Students United-AFT\/AAUP, University of Chicago
\nGraduate Workers of Columbia-UAW, Columbia University
\nHarvard Graduate Students Union-UAW, Harvard University
\nStudent Employees at The New School-UAW, The New School<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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