Updates

This is a final reminder about today’s bargaining session with WCM! If you would like to attend, please join us in Belfer Cafe at 12:45pm to go over guidelines for in-person bargaining before traveling to the room together. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to...

Final reminder about today’s WCMPU-UAW Bargaining Town Hall! It will take place in Belfer 1001 at 5pm. Let us know if you can make it so we know how many to expect. Please attend if you have any questions about the bargaining process or thoughts about how to reach a...

Since coming to office, the Trump Administration has attempted to attack science and public research funding in countless ways, including by cancelling NIH grants and fellowships and blocking review of grant applications. Our union, UAW, is one of the plaintiffs in a...

Sign up for our next Bargaining Town Hall Wednesday 5/21 at 5pm! On Monday we met with WCM for our 27th bargaining session, which was also our second in-person session. Our goal this session was to better understand why WCM continues trying to go below the basic...

Sign up to attend our next 2 in person bargaining sessions: May 12 and June 2! On Tuesday, May 6, we held our first in-person bargaining session with WCM. WCM presented their own package proposal in response to the comprehensive package we gave them two weeks ago, in...

RSVP for in person bargaining tomorrow (5/6) from 12-4pm! Over the last few weeks, the Trump Administration has been escalating attacks on non-citizen students and academic workers across the US—and we should be prepared for these threats to impact our WCM community....

On Tuesday, one day after more than 300 postdocs voted by 92% to authorize a strike, we met with WCM for our 28th bargaining session. In the session we saw clear signs of progress in response to the urgency demonstrated by our vote results. In a major effort to reach...

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Strike Authorization Vote, which ended at midnight yesterday. Weill Cornell postdocs voted by 92% to authorize our elected Bargaining Committee to call a strike if circumstances justify. Total ballots cast: 302Yes: 278No:...

Well over 100 postdocs have already cast their ballots just a day into our strike authorization vote. We have heard from some postdocs that Well Cornell IT may have quarantined emails with the link to vote, so that they do not appear immediately in our inboxes, but...

When over a year ago 99% of WCM postdocs voted to form our union, we intended to reach a fair contract for all postdocs as quickly as possible based on standards set by postdocs at Mount Sinai. However, by consistently rejecting basic rights that our unionized...