Since winning our union election last October by an overwhelming 68%, we have completed surveys from a majority of postdocs and associate researchers, democratically ratified our bargaining goals, elected a bargaining committee, and concluded our first eight bargaining sessions! We
Thanks to all our colleagues who joined us at our lively bargaining session with Columbia on Monday. We spent most of this week’s session addressing Columbia’s concerns about our proposal for stronger protections against bullying, discrimination, and harassment, as well
In our seventh bargaining session, we presented the administration with our open letter signed by a majority of Postdocs and Associate Research Scientists, calling on Columbia to negotiate stronger protections and recourse against harassment and discrimination. Representatives from our union
We are planning to present our harassment and discrimination proposal in our next session. If you have not yet signed our Open Letter to the University, encouraging them to agree to stronger protections around bullying, sexual harassment and discrimination please do
Yesterday we completed our fifth bargaining session with the University. Our bargaining committee continued to discuss several proposals we had previously made to the University which address many of the reasons a majority of us voted to have a
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