Bargaining Updates

As you’ve seen in our previous emails, instagram, or twitter, hundreds of Postdocs and Graduate Student Workers (GSWs) are signing up here to gather this Friday, July 19th at noon on the Parsons-Gates lawn on campus to challenge Caltech administration’s position that...

RSVP and join hundreds of your fellow Graduate Student Workers and Postdocs to rally on campus next Friday, July 19th, 12-1pm! Why?Caltech administration wants to undercut our new timely and enforceable grievance process. They proposed during our last bargaining...

As Graduate Student Workers (GSWs) and Postdocs look forward to more bargaining at the end of the month after a well-attended June bargaining session, it’s important to remember that: we are the union, we enforce our contract, and we keep us safe. GSWs and Postdocs...

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, six Tentative Agreements (TAs) have been reached,...

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,...

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...

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...