With roughly four weeks to go before our April 6 deadline, we had another somewhat productive bargaining session yesterday. We reached two new tentative agreements (which would establish protections against retaliation for pursuing complaints related to the University’s
Please share your thoughts on bullying, harassment and discrimination at Columbia. In our last bargaining session on Thursday, we did not reach any new tentative agreements, but had more constructive discussion around Compensation, Appointments/Reappointments, Leaves, Vacation, Intellectual Property, Grievance and
Please click here to share your thoughts confidentially on why we need stronger protections on bullying, harasment and discrimination. After more than one year of negotiations, we have reached agreement on some important topics that we believe will enhance life
Sign our open letter asking Congressional representatives for support! In bargaining Wednesday, we got the first serious indication that Columbia may be starting to listen to us. We reached one more important tentative agreement (Discharge and Discipline, summarized below), and
Sign our open letter to NYC area members of Congress calling for their support! As we approach April 6, 2020, we will increase efforts to send Columbia a strong message to reach a fair contract that improves our working conditions
Join us for a bargaining update town hall at the Lamont-Doherty Campus. Please RSVP here. Our bargaining committee will be hosting a Town Hall at the Lamont Campus on Friday, February 21st, 1:30-2:30pm in the Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building,
Click here to read “Postdocs and the Price of Prestige at Columbia University” In our latest bargaining session on Friday, we exchanged a larger number of proposals back and forth than has been typical in recent sessions. While we did
Click here – great opinion piece on the need for Postdoc/Associate salary increases! “We care deeply about our work, but we also know that we deserve more for our role in driving Columbia’s research mission. This devaluing of our work
In actions across campus and the community over recent days, we sent a clear message that Columbia needs to dramatically improve compensation for Postdocs and Associate Researchers. The administration’s initial response makes clear we need to continue expanding our voice
Happy New Year! We hope that everyone has had a good start to 2020. Please join us in showing Columbia that raising salaries is an important issue for all postdocs and ARS. We will be delivering our Open Letter calling