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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
October 5th, 24th NEGOTIATING SESSION
August 14th, 10:00 AM @ Studebaker (Manhatanville), Room 469 Informal Organizing Committee notes ARTICLE 2: APPOINTMENTS – Tentatively Agreed ARTICLE 4: CHILDCARE: ARTICLE 3: BENEFITS ARTICLE 5: COMPENSATION ARTICLE 29: CONTRACT DURATION DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE? Read the notes from the other sessions! Follow our next emails with updates on future steps and…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
August 31st, 18th NEGOTIATING SESSION
August 14th, 10:00 AM @ Studebaker (Manhatanville), Room 469 Informal Organizing Committee notes Your participation in Bargaining is very much appreciated! Join us in person or on our Slack channel to share your opinion/thoughts/concerns. Take home message – We won up to $1,250 to cover Visa renewal costs! That’s a big win to ensure we…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
August 1st, 17th NEGOTIATING SESSION
August 1st, 11:30 AM @ Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center (CUMC), Rooms 404-405 Informal Organizing Committee notes Your participation in Bargaining is very much appreciated! Join us in person or on our Slack channel to share your opinion/thoughts/concerns. Take home message – We Tentatively Agreed the articles on Professional Development, and Copyright & intellectual…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
July 31st, 16th NEGOTIATING SESSION
July 31st, 11:30 AM @ Studebaker (Manhatanville), Room 465 Informal Organizing Committee notes Your participation in Bargaining is very much appreciated! Join us in person or on our Slack channel to share your opinion/thoughts/concerns. Take home message – We have given what we belive is a reasonable economic offer, containing the priorities of postdocs/ARSs. The…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
July 18th, 15th NEGOTIATING SESSION
July 18th, 11:30 AM @ Studebaker (Manhatanville), Room 465 Informal Organizing Committee notes Your participation in Bargaining is very much appreciated! Join us in person or on our Slack channel to share your opinion/thoughts/concerns. Take home message – CU Admin doesn’t want to discuss much until we tentatively agreed or propose alternative language to all…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
June 30th, 14th NEGOTIATING SESSION
June 30th, 12:00 PM @ Hammer Building (CUMC), Room LL-110 Informal Organizing Committee notes Your participation in Bargaining is very much appreciated! Join us in person or on our Slack channel to share your opinion/thoughts/concerns. Take home message – After a long day CU Admin gave us a COMPLETE OFFER OF SETTLEMENT that fell short…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
June 29th, 13th NEGOTIATING SESSION
June 29th, 10:30 AM @ Studebaker, Room 469Informal Organizing Committee notes Your participation in Bargaining is very much appreciated! Join us in person or on our Slack channel to share your opinion/thoughts/concerns. Take home message – CU Admin continues to delay compensation discussion. They do not want to include Child care benefits in our contract.…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
June 22nd, 12th NEGOTIATING SESSION
June 22th, 10:30 AM @ Hammer, Room LL-210 Informal Organizing Committee notes Your participation in Bargaining is very much appreciated! Join us in person or on our Slack channel to share your opinion/thoughts/concerns. Take home message – We have submitted an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) complaint to the National Labor Relations Board (Federal entity that…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
June 14th, 11th NEGOTIATING SESSION
June 14th, 10:30 AM @ Hammer, Room LL-106 Informal Organizing Committee notes Your participation in Bargaining is very much appreciated! Join us in person or on our Slack channel to share your opinion/thoughts/concerns. Take home message – CU Admin is saying that they have made a “really good proposal” and that their proposal is the…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
June 12th, 10th NEGOTIATING SESSION
June 12th, 10:30 AM @ Hammer, Room LL-107. Informal Organizing Committee notes Your participation in Bargaining is very much appreciated! Join us in person or on our Slack channel to share your opinion/thoughts/concerns. Take home message – This session focused on three subject: Protections for Intellectual Property, Professional Development, and Protections from Power-based Harassment and…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
June 8th, 9th NEGOTIATING SESSION
June 8th, 1:45 PM @ Hammer, Room LL-207Informal Organizing Committee notes Your participation in Bargaining is very much appreciated! Join us in person or on our Slack channel to share your opinion/thoughts/concerns. Take home message – we moved closer to them in several economic and non economic articles (not yet in Compensation) hoping to get…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
May 31st, 8th NEGOTIATING SESSION
May 31st, 10:30 am @ Hammer, Room LL1-110 Informal Organizing Committee notes We arrived at 10:30 am. The Columbia administration arrived around 10:45 am, and we got started. This was a long session focusing mostly on non-economic articles. We came closer to an agreement on some Articles (Vacation, Holidays, and Sections of other Articles), but…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
May 23rd, 7th NEGOTIATING SESSION
May 23rd, 10:30 am @ Studebaker, 4th floor, Room 469 Informal Organizing Committee notes We arrived at 10:30 am, the Columbia Administration arrived around 10:45 pm, and we got started. 20 of us were in the room: 11 Postdocs/ARS sitting behind our Bargaining Team of 9. Session started off with CU Bargaining Committee handing us…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
May 19th, 6th NEGOTIATING SESSION
May 19th, 10:45 am @ Studebaker, 469 For background – this session wasn’t on our original schedule, but was recently added to the schedule – planned as a special session targeted to discuss the topic of childcare given that due to Columbia’s denial on hybrid bargainign has made difficult for the mom on our bargaining…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
May 15th, 5th NEGOTIATING SESSION
May 15th, 1:30 pm @ Hammer LL2-201 We arrived at 1:30 pm, the Columbia administration arrived around 1:45 pm, and we got started. 17 of us were in the room: 11 postdocs/ARS sitting behind our Bargaining Team of 6. Session started off with the CU bargaining committee handing us a set of non-economical counter-proposals–the day…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
May 11th, 4th NEGOTIATING SESSION
May 11th, 10 am @ Hammer LL2-207 We arrived at 10am, the Columbia administration arrived around 10:25 am, and we got started. 25 of us were in the room right now fighting for a better contract. There are 15 postdocs in the room standing behind our Bargaining Team of 10. First item on the agenda:…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
May 9th, 3rd NEGOTIATION SESSION
May 9th, 10 am @ Studebaker, Room 469. We arrived at 10am, the Columbia administration arrived around 10:15 am, and we got started. 20 of us were in the room right now fighting for a better contract. There are 13 postdocs in the room standing behind our Bargaining Team of 7. The first topic was…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
May 3rd, 2nd NEGOTIATION SESSION
May 3rd, 1pm @ Hammer Building, LL210. Members of the two bargaining teams arrived (Postdoc Union, Administration 13 mins late). Negotiations started. 35 of us are in the room right now fighting for a better contract. There are 25 postdocs in the room standing behind our Bargaining Team of 10. First on the agenda: Housing.…
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Throughout the day we pause the bargaining process to discuss strategy with all postdocs and ARSs in the room, without the administration bargaining team. This is called caucusing. It only works if people join the bargaining sessions—that’s why hybrid bargaining is so important.
April 20th, 1st NEGOTIATION SESSION
April 20th, 10am @ Studebaker Building, 4th Floor. Members of the two bargaining teams (Postdoc Union, Administration) introduced themselves. Negotiations started. We asked for hybrid meetings for the negotiation sessions. The university pushed against hybrid bargaining. We, the union, want hybrid bargaining because: CPW 2020 bargaining was over Zoom, and was efficient. Other Union negotiations…