News and Email Updates

Click here to participate in our CPW-UAW contract ratification vote. Voting on whether to ratify our tentative agreement with Columbia ...
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Click here to participate in our CPW-UAW contract ratification vote. Voting on whether to ratify our tentative agreement with Columbia ...
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Our elected bargaining committee has reached a tentative agreement for our first contract with the Columbia administration. We are very ...
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With our June 30 deadline looming, we have been tirelessly negotiating with Columbia to resolve our differences and come to ...
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Sign the open letter to the administration demanding a fair contract We had a short surprise visit from interim Provost ...
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In our latest bargaining session yesterday, we exchanged more proposals on Compensation, Non-Discrimination, Leaves of Absence and Union Security. We ...
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Columbia made its most substantial economic proposal yet in yesterday’s bargaining session, but the University’s overall package of proposals still ...
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After over a year of negotiating, we’ve reached tentative agreements with the University on many issues. In recent months, the ...
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As Columbia proceeds toward a fuller research ramp-up, the administration bargaining team continues to resist certain improvements for Postdoc and ...
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A number of immigration law firms are reporting that the Trump Administration is preparing an executive order to be released in the ...
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Postdoc and Associate Researchers speak out on discrimination, harassment and bullying Columbia must do better. While we are still negotiating ...
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In our latest bargaining session Monday, we continued to make modest progress on some of the core non-economic issues remaining ...
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Recent Postdoc and Associate Researcher actions appear to have had some positive effect on Columbia’s approach to our negotiations and ...
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Please click here if you are concerned about returning to work next week Although the University has not announced a ...
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Please Sign our Letter to the Admin Demanding a Fair Contract We clearly need to send a stronger message to ...
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Tell Columbia to respect researchers by agreeing to a fair contract as we all take on COVID-19. As a group, ...
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Click here–write Congress now to protect Researchers and other Academic Workers. Join us in sending a letter to congress with ...
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Compared to last week, when Columbia’s team withdrew proposed salary increases and accused us of wasting time during the COVID-19 ...
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Read the CPW-UAW Bargaining Committee letter urging Congress to increase research funding After several sessions where we believed we were ...
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Follow the CPW-UAW FB Page as we fight to finish a fair contract! After meeting again with the Columbia administration ...
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The CPW-UAW bargaining committee continues working toward a fair agreement–see our latest bargaining update is below. We want to start ...
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First, we want to give a shout out and thanks to all the Postdoc and Associate Researchers, as well as ...
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Thanks to everyone who has filled out the CPW-UAW survey on the impact of COVID-19 in our workplace. The feedback ...
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Join us on Friday, March 20 to discuss how COVID-19 is affecting researchers. With the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak only becoming ...
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Online Town Hall this Friday: RSVP for our Online Town Hall on Friday March 20th from 1:00-2:00pm. With only three ...
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As the situation with COVID19 continues to develop, we are committed to working toward the safety and wellbeing of all ...
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    With roughly four weeks to go before our April 6 deadline, we had another somewhat productive bargaining session ...
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Please share your thoughts on bullying, harassment and discrimination at Columbia. In our last bargaining session on Thursday, we did ...
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Please click here to share your thoughts confidentially on why we need stronger protections on bullying, harasment and discrimination. After ...
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Sign our open letter asking Congressional representatives for support! In bargaining Wednesday, we got the first serious indication that Columbia ...
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Sign our open letter to NYC area members of Congress calling for their support! As we approach April 6, 2020, ...
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Join us for a bargaining update town hall at the Lamont-Doherty Campus. Please RSVP here. Our bargaining committee will be ...
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Click here to read “Postdocs and the Price of Prestige at Columbia University” In our latest bargaining session on Friday, ...
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Click here – great opinion piece on the need for Postdoc/Associate salary increases! “We care deeply about our work, but ...
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In actions across campus and the community over recent days, we sent a clear message that Columbia needs to dramatically ...
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Happy New Year! We hope that everyone has had a good start to 2020. Please join us in showing Columbia ...
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In our bargaining session on Thursday last week, we discussed Recognition, Intellectual Property, Non-Discrimination and Harassment, and Grievance and Arbitration ...
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Next week, we will be holding town halls to discuss the current status of our campaign to win improvements in ...
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We will be holding town halls to discuss the current status of our campaign to win improvements in our first ...
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In our latest bargaining session late last week, our main objective was to continue emphasizing how our proposals on Leaves ...
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RSVP here to join us this Thursday at 12:30 for our 20th bargaining session. We are excited to be bargaining ...
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In our latest bargaining session this week, we had further discussion on a handful of proposals, but reached no new ...
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In regards to the CPW-UAW Bargaining Committee Vacancy Election scheduled to be on Thursday, October 17th, 2019, one of the ...
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See below for the official notice of the Bargaining Committee Vacancy Election on Thursday, October 17th, 2019. Candidate statements, the guide to ...
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In our latest bargaining session with the Columbia team yesterday, we made a little bit more progress even as we ...
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CPW-UAW Notice of Nomination NOTICE OF NOMINATION AND VACANCY ELECTION FOR THE UNION BARGAINING COMMITTEE (two [2] positions) October 2, ...
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Join us at the Velocity Ride to End Cancer! On Sunday, October 6th, some of us will be handing out ...
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We presented all of our remaining economic proposals on Monday’s bargaining session. While we can make additional proposals if we ...
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We had a short bargaining session on Thursday where we presented initial proposals on our major economic topics. We made ...
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Thanks to the everyone who attended bargaining yesterday. Unfortunately, we had another challenging bargaining session with Columbia. We had further ...
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We had a frustrating bargaining session yesterday. While we hoped to come closer to and/or reach tentative agreements on several ...
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We had a short bargaining session yesterday, as well as a separate Health and Safety-focused bargaining subcommittee meeting at the ...
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Click here if you would like to share your experience with us on why having stronger protections against bullying and ...
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Yesterday, we had an eventful bargaining session with some progress and many updates. We are happy to report that we ...
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In our latest bargaining session this week, another postdoc gave compelling testimonial about bullying, discrimination and harassment, we had constructive ...
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Since winning our union election last October by an overwhelming 68%, we have completed surveys from a majority of postdocs ...
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Thanks to all our colleagues who joined us at our lively bargaining session with Columbia on Monday.  We spent most ...
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In our seventh bargaining session, we presented the administration with our open letter signed by a majority of Postdocs and ...
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We are planning to present our harassment and discrimination proposal in our next session. If you have not yet signed our ...
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Yesterday we completed our fifth bargaining session with the University. Our bargaining committee continued to discuss several proposals we had ...
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We are excited to have completed our fourth bargaining session with Columbia. Please take a minute to add your voice ...
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We had another half-day bargaining session today. In our discussion and in their counterproposals so far, Columbia again made clear ...
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We had our second bargaining session today and gave our first batch of proposed contract articles to Columbia’s team.  We ...
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Today, our bargaining committee had our first negotiation session with the University administration. We began the meeting with introductions, and ...
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Today, after years of organizing our union, we have the opportunity to sit down with Columbia and negotiate for  improved ...
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As we move closer to negotiations with Columbia, we want to take a moment to describe our vision of how ...
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As we prepare to begin negotiations with the Columbia administration at the end of February, please join our fellow unionized ...
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If you have not done so, please take a moment to vote on the Initial Bargaining Goals! We are currently ...
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Please take a moment to vote on Initial Bargaining Goals! As the bargaining committee, we urge you to ratify the ...
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Starting next month, our elected bargaining committee will begin negotiating improvements to our working conditions based on feedback received by ...
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Our bargaining committee has developed a set of initial goals based on a majority of Postdocs and Associate Research Scientists ...
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As we start 2019, we are excited to provide an update about next steps moving toward bargaining with Columbia in ...
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We are very excited that a majority of Postdocs and Associate Research Scientists have completed the CPW-UAW bargaining survey. After ...
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Late yesterday, the National Labor Relations Board granted Columbia’s withdrawal of the request for review. This is a very exciting step forward ...
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We are excited to announce that after much debate both Columbia Postdoctoral Workers-UAW (CPW) and Graduate Workers of Columbia-UAW (GWC) ...
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Earlier this week the Columbia administration proposed a framework to recognize and bargain with our union, and we are now ...
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Dear Columbia Postdoctoral Workers, We are excited to announce that, as a result of all of our hard work over ...
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The graduate employee union (GWC-UAW)  has announced a strike deadline of December 4th if Columbia continues to break federal law ...
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At the close of nominations on Thursday November 8th, at 5:00pm, seven (7) people have accepted their nominations for the ...
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This past Friday, our union filed our response opposing Columbia’s recent ‘request for review’ to National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ...
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We are very excited that nominations are open for the CPW-UAW bargaining committee! Check out our new page with information ...
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Columbia has launched another effort to avoid bargaining with our union.  We learned Friday night that Columbia filed a “request ...
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NOTICE OF NOMINATION AND ELECTION FOR THE UNION BARGAINING COMMITTEE (seven [7] positions) October 26, 2018 Nominations are hereby declared ...
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Thank you all for attending a town hall on our upcoming bargaining committee elections and for your helpful feedback on ...
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We are excited that our mandate for collective bargaining has gained national press attention as well as support from elected ...
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The NLRB just finished counting ballots and we voted by an overwhelming 68% (729-yes to 339-no), in favor of Columbia ...
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We are very excited that our election on unionization  is less than one week away on October 2nd and 3rd ...
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Huge news! The regional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) just set dates for our election on unionization to take place ...
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We are happy to report that we concluded our hearings at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) yesterday. For our ...
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Yesterday we completed our first day of hearings at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Columbia did not accept our ...
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Come to a Postdoc Union town hall to find out more about our upcoming vote. Last week, we took an ...
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A Big Step Forward for our Postdoc Union: CPW-UAW Files a Petition with the NLRB   We are excited to ...
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NEW YORK CITY — A majority of the 2,000 postdoctoral researchers at Columbia University have formed a union and today ...
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Join us as we rally with the Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC-UAW) at the March to End Family Separation, tomorrow ...
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Please take a minute to sign this petition from GWC-UAW to oppose the attack on international scholars. Yesterday, the Supreme ...
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We are excited that a majority of postdoctoral researchers have signed up for our union and that we are moving ...
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This Sunday is NYC’s Pride parade, a celebration of the history of LGBTQ struggles in the U.S. We are excited ...
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RSVP to join Columbia Postdoctoral Workers at the March for Science on April 14th. Last year, we marched together in ...
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Recent events across the country show that sexual harassment pervades the academic workplace as deeply as it does Hollywood or ...
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Happy International Women’s Day! Women around the world are coming together today to celebrate the struggles to advance women’s cultural, ...
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We write to express our frustration with the Columbia administration’s latest efforts to deny collective bargaining rights to our graduate ...
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Please let us know if you would like to get more involved in building the postdoc union. In an email ...
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One year ago, graduate employees voted by an overwhelming 72% majority to form their union. After the election, Columbia’s administration ...
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We are excited to be having two Town Halls this week. We will be skyping in unionized postdocs from the ...
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