Bargaining Updates

This week, over a hundred GSWs and Postdocs came all the way to the edge of old town Pasadena to demonstrate support for the Wages and Healthcare proposals put forth by our bargaining teams. By organizing in our labs in response to Caltech admin’s recent unlawful...

TL;DR Collective bargaining info sessions - RSVP here Bargaining team nominations open on Monday, 3/25 Fill out the bargaining survey! My name is Jeremy, and I’m a GPS postdoc. As we start to gear up for collective bargaining it’s time to take a bit of a closer look...

Last week, administration and our bargaining teams reached a verbal agreement on the Grievance and Arbitration article, which became a Tentative Agreement on 5/31 following confirmation from Caltech administration. This article is crucial to our ability to enforce the...

I’m Jessica, a postdoc in BBE and one of your elected bargaining team members. I’m excited to give our first bargaining update from this week’s back to back sessions on 5/29 and 5/30! We proposed 16 articles, including Prohibitions against Discrimination, Harassment,...

I’m emailing today to let you know about some important next steps, including the dates for nominating and electing a bargaining team that were collectively decided on during yesterday's town hall. First, thank you to everyone who attended the first post-election town...

Now that grads and postdocs have won our union election, we have entered a crucial and exciting period in our effort to improve Caltech. RSVP HERE for a town hall discussion this Wednesday, March 6 at 5pm to help democratically decide how big your bargaining team is...