Email Digest
Who Keeps Us Safe? We Keep Us Safe.
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...
Bargaining Update: We’re Building Power
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,...
Grievance Article Unresolved: Admin Withdrew Agreement
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...
First Bargaining Update: 5 Tentative Agreements Reached!
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,...
New Collective Bargaining Info Sessions and Next Steps
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...
Bargaining Team Election and Initial Bargaining Demands: What’s Next for Our Union?
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...
Let’s Talk Bargaining Team
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...
Vote Yes TODAY – Polls close at 7pm!
If you’ve voted in the union election already, thank you for using your voice! The decision to unionize should be a democratic one, and democracy requires high participation. If you haven’t yet, please take a few minutes to stop by the Ramo Auditorium lobby and cast...
Vote YES to Form C/GPU Tomorrow and Thursday
The election to decide whether we form a union of graduate students and postdocs at Caltech is this week. Our union, composed of and governed democratically by all of us, will give us a unique opportunity to bargain for improvements to our working conditions and...
Parents vote YES for a union
We are writing as postdoc and graduate student parents at Caltech, encouraging you to vote YES in the upcoming union election on January 31 and February 1 at Ramo Auditorium. As academic parents, we deal with a number of challenges balancing our diverse...