by Justin | Jun 22, 2021 | Graduate Workers, Organizing, UAW Local 2865
Across the University of California, teaching assistants and tutors are unionized, but graduate student researchers are not. That could soon change, after organizers filed more than 10,000 signed union authorization cards with the California Public Employment...
by Justin | May 24, 2021 | Graduate Workers, Organizing, UAW Local 2865
A quiet campaign by UAW organizers at the University of California ended Monday with more than 10,000 signed cards officially submitted to authorities that would create the Student Researchers United-UAW, representing more than 17,000 higher education workers. These...
by Justin | May 7, 2021 | Graduate Workers, Postdoctoral Researchers, UAW Local 4121
The UW’s Union of Academic Student Employees (ASEs) and Postdocs (UAW Local 4121) has been negotiating with university administration officials for nearly two months as they aim for higher wages and better health coverage. The union has more than 6,000 members across...
by Justin | May 5, 2021 | Graduate Workers, Harvard University, HGSU - UAW Local 5118
After attending bargaining sessions with Harvard to negotiate the graduate student union’s second contract, rank-and-file union members said the University’s bargaining team was resistant to the union’s proposed changes, especially on the topics of compensation and...
by Justin | May 5, 2021 | Graduate Workers, GSOC-UAW 2110, New York University, Postdoctoral Researchers
Zach Schwartz-Weinstein marched alongside fellow graduate student workers and union supporters from Judson Memorial Church to Washington Square Park on April 27, 2006, to support the recognition of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee. They demanded that NYU...
by Justin | May 3, 2021 | Columbia University, Graduate Workers, GWC-UAW 2110, Postdoctoral Researchers
The tentative agreement reached between Columbia and the Graduate Workers of Columbia–United Auto Workers’ bargaining committee failed to pass on April 30. Student-workers voted 1,093-970 with 63-percent participation to continue negotiating, a process that will...
