by caltechgpu | Jul 10, 2024 | Bargaining, Updates
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...
by caltechgpu | Jul 1, 2024 | Bargaining, Updates
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...
by caltechgpu | Jun 20, 2024 | 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, six Tentative Agreements (TAs) have been reached,...
by caltechgpu | Jun 5, 2024 | Bargaining, Updates
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...
by caltechgpu | May 31, 2024 | Bargaining, Updates
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,...
by caltechgpu | Mar 13, 2024 | Bargaining, Updates
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...
