Email Digest

TL;DR: Our monthly membership meeting for the month of July will be held next Thursday, 07/31, in Chen 130 at 5:30pm! We will be talking about the outcome of the recent town hall with Reps. Judy Chu and George Whitesides and discussing and approving the quarterly...

Last Friday, Congressional Representatives Judy Chu and George Whitesides flew back from Washington after a round of midnight voting. They met with over 300 Caltech and JPL researchers at a town hall organized by CGPU (UAW 2478) and workers at JPL. Both...

TL;DR: While science funding has been under attack from the current US administration since it came into power, there’s still time to fight the most significant cuts. Come to a town hall meeting in Ramo Auditorium with US Congresswoman Judy Chu on Friday, July 18th at...

TL;DR: On the 18th of July, at 2:30PM, UAW Local 2478 will be hosting Congressional Representative Judy Chu (CA-28)! RSVP here and fill out this form if you have any stories to share. Tentative location: Beckman Mall! We hope this summer has been treating you well....

Today at 2pm, we will be hosting a training to learn the rights you have on and off campus in regard to interacting with federal immigration agents and keeping our community safe. Please join us at 2pm in the Hameetman Multipurpose Room (above Red Door); RSVP here....

This is a notice that our monthly membership meeting will take place at 5:00pm on Monday, June 30th in Chen 340a. In solidarity, Marina Lecoeuche Steward, BBE

TL;DR: if you were on a cancelled NIH grant, please submit your info by tomorrow so the courts are aware of your grant! Our union, UAW, is one of the plaintiffs in a case filed in federal court that is challenging NIH grant cancellations. Earlier this week, a judge...

We write to you as concerned members and organizers with your union, UAW Local 2478. In the last month the Trump administration has revoked Harvard’s enrollment in the SEVP program, imperilling Harvard’s international students and postdocs, and paused ALL new student...

Last month at our May membership meeting, members discussed science funding cuts, grave threats to international scholars, and how we will be taking action to fight for our careers at Caltech. It was in the context of these extremely pressing issues that our first...

TL;DR: The Institute is currently requiring that all grads and postdocs use the Time Away app to record entitled vacation days. This is meant, in part, to ensure that those who have not received their entitled days in the past have a way to enforce their right to paid...