Our elected bargaining committee has reached a tentative agreement for our first contract with the Columbia administration. We are very proud of the substantive and important improvements we won as a result of years of tireless organizing and 16 months
With our June 30 deadline looming, we have been tirelessly negotiating with Columbia to resolve our differences and come to a fair agreement (There’s still time to sign the open letter demanding a fair contract). After substantial effort to find workable
Sign the open letter to the administration demanding a fair contract We had a short surprise visit from interim Provost Katznelson yesterday in our bargaining session. He asserted a strong desire to finish an agreement by the end of June
In our latest bargaining session yesterday, we exchanged more proposals on Compensation, Non-Discrimination, Leaves of Absence and Union Security. We made small progress on Compensation, but still have significant differences on that topic as well as others. As we still
Columbia made its most substantial economic proposal yet in yesterday’s bargaining session, but the University’s overall package of proposals still falls short of what we would consider a fair agreement. This is especially true in their continued effort to provide
After over a year of negotiating, we’ve reached tentative agreements with the University on many issues. In recent months, the CPW-UAW bargaining committee has been working hard to find a path to completing a fair agreement with Columbia–even as the
As Columbia proceeds toward a fuller research ramp-up, the administration bargaining team continues to resist certain improvements for Postdoc and Associate Researchers who make up a substantial core of the research workforce. While the CPW-UAW bargaining committee continues to work
A number of immigration law firms are reporting that the Trump Administration is preparing an executive order to be released in the coming days/weeks that could have serious negative consequences for visa holders (possibly including H-1B, J-1, F-1/OPT, L-1 and others). Specifically,
Postdoc and Associate Researchers speak out on discrimination, harassment and bullying Columbia must do better. While we are still negotiating modest progress on a number of issues, the Columbia administration team nevertheless continues to threaten to take back proposed economic
In our latest bargaining session Monday, we continued to make modest progress on some of the core non-economic issues remaining in our ongoing negotiations. We would again like to thank all the postdoc and associate researchers who have stepped up