News and Email Updates

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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