{"id":5465,"date":"2021-11-01T12:49:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=5465"},"modified":"2021-11-11T20:08:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T01:08:48","slug":"membership-meeting-12-832-407","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/events\/membership-meeting-12-832-407\/","title":{"rendered":"Membership Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our November membership meeting will be <\/span><b>Thursday, November 18th at 6:30pm<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZMsdOyspzMrHdGT-HNVp61zwbNwxMrb5-bj\"><b>Click here to RSVP for the Membership Meeting<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><u>Topics proposed for our next membership meeting<\/u><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meet our new staff organizer!<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Issues affecting Postdocs and ARSs at Columbia: Discussion on lost retirement contributions and other workplace issues.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Update from our teaching and research assistant colleagues in the Student Workers of Columbia-UAW who are on strike.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Report from the university-wide committee discussing policy to address bullying and power based harassment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our monthly Finances and Executive Board reports.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And bring any other suggestions!\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a reminder, to conduct discussions and votes in an orderly manner at our membership meetings, we follow the parliamentary procedure used in most Local Unions and community organization meetings outlined in Robert\u2019s Rules of Order. <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Cheat-Sheet-of-Roberts-Rules-of-Order.pdf\">You can find a cheat sheet with the most commonly used rules here<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If you have any questions about how to use these rules during the meeting, always feel free to ask. As a new local union, we are all learning together and there are no wrong questions. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our November membership meeting will be Thursday, November 18th at 6:30pm.\u00a0\u00a0 Click here to RSVP for the Membership Meeting. Topics proposed for our next membership meeting:\u00a0 Meet our new staff organizer! Issues affecting Postdocs and ARSs at Columbia: Discussion on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5465"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=5465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}