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Check out this op-ed by members of our union on why Columbia should support parents<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n We recently delivered our petition calling for an extension to the emergency childcare benefit to Interim Provost Katznelson. He indicated that Columbia was continuing to weigh its options given the fiscal constraints imposed by the pandemic. While we understand these constraints, the lack of affordable childcare imposes an unrealistic burden on parents, undermining efforts towards gender equity in academia and research progress. If you haven\u2019t already, please sign our petition so we can continue to put pressure on Columbia: https:\/\/bit.ly\/supportCUparents<\/span><\/p>\n Reminder: Membership Meeting this Tuesday!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n As a reminder, our December membership meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 15th at 7pm. We will discuss the election of our first Stewards and upcoming committees with the administration to develop a new policy against workplace bullying, and the status of pay-direct postdocs in our unit. We will also discuss political efforts led by other academic UAW locals.<\/span><\/p>\n Click here to RSVP for the meeting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Upcoming COVID-19 Vaccine Seminars<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The university administration has announced a set of principles for the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as two town hall meetings to discuss its distribution plan. We encourage all Postdocs and ARS to attend a town hall to learn more about the university\u2019s plan. You can register at the links below:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Please don\u2019t hesitate to reach out with any questions or thoughts,<\/span><\/p>\n CPW-UAW Local 4100 Executive Board<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Check out this op-ed by members of our union on why Columbia should support parents We recently delivered our petition calling for an extension to the emergency childcare benefit to Interim Provost Katznelson. He indicated that Columbia was continuing to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4824,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions\/4824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n