Did you hear that NYU Langone postdoc salaries are going to $70K this December? This is a clear response to their organizing efforts to form a union 🔥. The latest offer of Columbia of $63,6000 for our new minimum salaries looks even more hurtful… 

Before we won our first contract in 2020, postdocs at Columbia were amongst the lowest paid in the city. With that first contract, we became the highest minimum salary in NYC 💰.  We did it once, and we will do it again!

That is why we are encouraging you to VOTE YES in our Strike Authorization Vote!

At our last bargaining session on Monday:

🌍 We won $1,250 to cover Visa renewals related expenses!

  • This is a great victory that will ensure that Internationals (the majority of us) are not penalized for their work.

⚧️ We won a mechanism for our union to increase diversity and inclusion

  • We won a side letter for a working group where we can bring improvements needed for more diverse hiring practices and improvement in access to gender neutral bathrooms.  

READ THE FULL REPORT HERE

Our next bargaining session is August 31 and there are only 5 articles left to agree which include the following topics: 

💸 Compensation:

  • New minimum salaries
  • New yearly raises – we are asking for an across the board 3% with an automatic lump sum if inflation is over 3%
  • Experience-based raises

🧑‍🍼Childcare:

  • Benefits per kid and not per family (in our contract so that Columbia can’t change it without negotiating with us)

🏡 Housing:

  • A stipend to supplement us from being the only postdocs/ARSs in the city who don’t receive subsidized guarantee housing

🟰 Equality for Postdoc Fellows 

  • such that they are not penalized with an independent contractor status 

⏲️ Length of the contract – 

  • Columbia’s Admin wants 5 years while trying to lock us into a really precarious contract. 

We need improvements in all of these issues! 

We are encouraging you to VOTE YES in our Strike Authorization Vote to show Columbia’s Admin that we are determined to win improvements in all these areas.

Check instagram.com/cpw_uaw/ and twitter.com/CPWUAW
 for more reasons why we are voting YES to authorize a strike!

Sincerely,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Bargaining & Organizing Committees.

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