{"id":5498,"date":"2021-12-21T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/?p=5498"},"modified":"2021-12-23T10:51:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T15:51:51","slug":"cpw-uaw-end-of-year-newsletter-your-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/cpw-uaw-end-of-year-newsletter-your-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"CPW-UAW End of Year Newsletter + Your Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"621\" height=\"404\" src=\"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CPW_HOLIDAY_12.15.21.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CPW_HOLIDAY_12.15.21.png 621w, https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/CPW_HOLIDAY_12.15.21-300x195.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Happy Holidays! As the year comes to a close, we wanted to share some important information on your right to paid time-off under our contract, as well as some updates on our Union.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this email:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contract Rights: Holidays and Vacation Days<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UC Student Researchers Win Union Recognition<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Student Workers of Columbia Strike and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZIvcOysqDgsH9Ov9HNTeWNRrZs6YjnjAdq4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Virtual Rally (12\/23)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UAW Referendum Results<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Voting Rights for NYC International Workers<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contract Rights: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Holidays and Vacation Days<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the holidays approach, keep in mind that you have a right to paid holidays and vacation days, as per our contract (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-CPW-UAW-Columbia-Collective-Bargaining-Agreement-2020.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Article 11<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). This year, you are entitled to four holiday days on Christmas Eve (December 24), December 27, New <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Year\u2019s Eve (December 31) and January 3, in addition to personal days (2 at CUMC and 3 at Morningside).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All researchers also earn 2 days of paid vacation per month of employment, up to 23 days (28 days after 20 years of employment). Vacation days earned remain valid up to June 30 of the year following the year in which they were earned. If you are in any way being refused this vacation time or discouraged from taking days off, please fill out this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/contact-us\/cpw-uaw-workplace-issue-form\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Workplace Issue Form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or reach out at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:columbiapostdocunion@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">columbiapostdocunion@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> so that we can help you enforce your rights under our contract.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UC Student Researchers Win Union Recognition<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On December 8th, 17,000 unionized graduate student researchers at the University of California won recognition for their union, Student Researchers United-UAW, becoming the biggest new group of workers to unionize this year and the biggest ever in higher education. Their win comes after majority strike authorization votes by both our student researcher and postdoctoral colleagues at UC (who are currently in contract negotiations.) Check out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/activism\/sru-uaw-university-california\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this article on how they won<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sruuaw\/status\/1471893929666752514?s=20\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recent event they held with AOC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on how unionization can improve academic working conditions.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Student Workers of Columbia Strike Enters 8th Week<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As our colleagues in SWC-UAW enter their 8th week on strike for a fair contract, we are proud that our Union voted at our December membership meeting to donate $1,000 to their strike fund. You can find other ways to support our student worker colleagues in our solidarity statement <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/CPW-SWC-solidarity-statement.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Student workers will hold a Digital Rally to increase pressure on Columbia to reach an agreement, this Thursday, 12\/23 at 1pm, along with community, labor, and elected allies. <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tZIvcOysqDgsH9Ov9HNTeWNRrZs6YjnjAdq4\"><b>Click here to RSVP for the Digital Rally.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UAW Referendum Results<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uawmonitor.com\/electionsreferendum\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">results<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the recent national UAW Referendum are in, with 36.3% supporting the continuation of the delegate voting system to elect members of the International Executive Board (IEB) and 63.7% supporting switching to a direct voting system. This means that moving forward, all UAW members, including all members of CPW-UAW, will be able to vote directly for UAW national leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New Voting Rights for NYC International Workers<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On December 9, the New York City Council <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2021\/12\/09\/2115\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">approved legislation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that would allow eligible noncitizens to vote in municipal elections beginning in January 2023. This expansion of voting rights to almost 100,000 eligible New Yorkers (including green card holders, DACA holders, and noncitizens authorized to work in the country) will make NYC the largest jurisdiction in the country to allow noncitizen voting. This win for workers is the result of organizing and advocacy by many labor groups, including UAW Region 9A, of which we are proud to be a part.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inform the Priorities of Our Union!<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2021, we worked hard to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/1-year-anniversary-of-our-contract-membership-meeting-tonight\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enforce and expand<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the many rights and protections that we won in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/CPW_Contract-Flyer_4.19.21.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our first contract<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>in 2022 we will likely begin preparations to negotiate our second contract in 2022<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If you have not already, take a minute to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfpSlFf3VwtJyRIxcIITU9-aqTqNBxH8J4TVZqn_e0rJrzC3g\/viewform?usp=sf_link\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">complete this survey of your priorities for 2022.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In solidarity,<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CPW-UAW Local 4100 Executive Board<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">P.S. &#8211; To stay informed about our union, make sure to follow us on <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/BdMzRa7RA8sXMZui6\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slack<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CPWUAW\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ColumbiaPostdocUnion\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Holidays! As the year comes to a close, we wanted to share some important information on your right to paid time-off under our contract, as well as some updates on our Union.\u00a0 In this email: Contract Rights: Holidays and<\/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\/5498"}],"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=5498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5504,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5498\/revisions\/5504"}],"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=5498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/columbiapostdocunion.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}