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
In our bargaining session on Thursday last week, we discussed Recognition, Intellectual Property, Non-Discrimination and Harassment, and Grievance and Arbitration articles. Columbia made an official counter proposal on Non-Discrimination and Harassment that codified the verbal commitment they made last session
Next week, we will be holding town halls to discuss the current status of our campaign to win improvements in our first union contract. Come to learn about the bargaining process, progress we have made so far, and what it
We will be holding town halls to discuss the current status of our campaign to win improvements in our first union contract. This is a great opportunity to learn about the bargaining process, progress we have made so far, and
In our latest bargaining session late last week, our main objective was to continue emphasizing how our proposals on Leaves and Non-Discrimination aim to advance one of our main goals – to improve gender and other forms of equity
RSVP here to join us this Thursday at 12:30 for our 20th bargaining session. We are excited to be bargaining again in Studebaker room 207. We encourage everyone to come to the session for a first-hand view of the
In our latest bargaining session this week, we had further discussion on a handful of proposals, but reached no new tentative agreements. While we did have what we hope was useful dialogue on some of our proposals, it remains