We are excited to have completed our fourth bargaining session with Columbia. Please take a minute to add your voice to our Open Letter on Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination. While we had productive discussion on several proposals such
We had another half-day bargaining session today. In our discussion and in their counterproposals so far, Columbia again made clear its desire to include as few rights in our contract as possible. In response to the university’s previous proposal
We had our second bargaining session today and gave our first batch of proposed contract articles to Columbia’s team. We had some productive initial conversation on some of our topics, but Columbia also passed several proposals communicating its central
Today, our bargaining committee had our first negotiation session with the University administration. We began the meeting with introductions, and then our team presented our bargaining goals which have been ratified by 98% of voting Postdocs and Associate Researchers. You
Today, after years of organizing our union, we have the opportunity to sit down with Columbia and negotiate for improved and more secure conditions to do our research. Last fall, we voted 68% in favor of our union. As
As we move closer to negotiations with Columbia, we want to take a moment to describe our vision of how we hope to promote a democratic and representative process by ensuring the ability of Postdocs and Associate Research Scientists to
As we prepare to begin negotiations with the Columbia administration at the end of February, please join our fellow unionized workers at Columbia, the nurses at New York-Presbyterian/CUMC Hospital, this Wednesday, February 13th from 11:30-2:30, for an informational rally as they
If you have not done so, please take a moment to vote on the Initial Bargaining Goals! We are currently voting on our bargaining goals that have been developed through a majority of Postdocs and Associate Research Scientists filling out
Please take a moment to vote on Initial Bargaining Goals! As the bargaining committee, we urge you to ratify the initial bargaining goals so that we have as much power as possible during the negotiations for our first contract to
Starting next month, our elected bargaining committee will begin negotiating improvements to our working conditions based on feedback received by a majority of postdoctoral researchers and Associate Research Scientists through surveys. Initial bargaining goals have been developed and you can review