Updates
We made massive movement towards WCM but gaps remain—join a postdoc mass meeting tomorrow at 12pm!
Join the postdoc mass meeting tomorrow (10/16) at 12pm outside 1300 York! Yesterday we held our 40th bargaining session with WCM, our first since they set a deadline of October 29th to agree to a contract or they will re-assert Force Majeure. More than 60 postdocs...
Final reminder: in-person bargaining + Q&A today!
This is a final reminder about today’s bargaining session with WCM at 1pm! If you would like to attend, please join us in Belfer Cafe at 12:40pm to go over guidelines for in-person bargaining before traveling to the room together. After the bargaining session there...
Take Action: Postdoc Union Mass Meeting Thursday (10/16), 12pm
Click here to join a postdoc Mass Meeting Thurs 10/16 at 12pm Click here to join the next bargaining session Tues 10/14 at 1pm Since March, the WCM administration stalled negotiations by insisting on an unprecedented Force Majeure clause, and rejecting basic...
WCM moves on Force Majeure but doesn’t change their inadequate Layoff provision
Sign up for the next bargaining sessions on Tues, Oct 14 and Wed, Oct 29! One day after delivering an open letter signed by 75% of postdocs demanding that WCM address financial uncertainties by agreeing to a fair layoff process instead of insisting on having the...
75% of postdocs tell WCM to drop Force Majeure and agree to fair contract now + Bargaining tomorrow
Click here to sign up for the bargaining session tomorrow 10/1! At our last bargaining session, the WCM administration said they would work on an updated counter proposal addressing remaining economic issues. Since then, we delivered an open letter to the Dean signed...
WCM claims not to know when Force Majeure would be used, but still insists, while going backwards on Compensation
On September 18th, we met with the WCM administration for our 38th bargaining session. At the session, WCM presented a proposal on Force Majeure that they said included no movement, and a counterproposal on Layoff with some changes to their proposed order of layoffs....
Tell WCM to stop delaying a fair contract
Click here to sign our open letter demanding NO FORCE MAJEURE! We are writing with a few updates on our campaign. First, we have confirmed two upcoming bargaining sessions on the following dates, one coming up this week: Thursday (tomorrow), September 18, 2025, from...
Take action with UAW to stop NIH budget cuts on 9/5 and 9/12!
Click here to RSVP for our 9/12 citywide Town Hall with elected officials and/or our 9/5 nationwide phone bank to stop NIH cuts! The Trump administration has proposed a nearly 40% reduction to the NIH budget for 2026. Cuts on this scale would be devastating for...
WCM reasserts Force Majeure with minimal changes
As we continue our campaign to win secure and competitive conditions for WCM postdocs, we met with WCM in person last week for our 37th bargaining session. Read on for a short update on that session, as well as on our continued efforts to stop cuts to federal research...
WCM signals resistance to dropping Force Majeure and providing adequate layoff notice
On Wednesday, August 13th, we convened our 36th bargaining session with the WCM administration, the first session after our Picket to Protect Science. We hoped that the administration would substantively respond to postdocs’ concerns about job security and financial...