Email Digest
NOTICE OF NOMINATION AND ELECTION FOR UPROR-UAW BARGAINING COMMITTEE
United Postdoctoral Researchers Of Rockefeller-UAW (UPROR-UAW) Bargaining Committee has decided to seek two (2) members to fill vacant spots on the Committee. The members will come abreast of the Committee’s activities and will replace recent vacancies on the...
16th Bargaining Session: The Power of Visible Support
On Friday, October 17th, we held our 16th bargaining session with the University. The tone of this conversation was markedly more constructive than usual, and this likely stems from the greater number of postdocs who attended the session. The single-most important...
Another Tentative Agreement reached, and continued resistance from the University to major demands
On Monday, September 29th, we held our 15th bargaining session with the University, where we and the University each exchanged counterproposals on thirteen articles for our contract, including one Tentative Agreement (TA) on the Travel article. This brings us up to...
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...
Work Travel Funding (Nearly) Secured; University Resistant to Strong IP Rights
Click here to RSVP to observe our next bargaining session! On Wednesday, August 20th, we held our 14th bargaining session with the University. The University countered on 8 articles and proposed changes to the University's Intellectual Property Policy, while the Union...
11th, 12th, and 13th Bargaining Sessions: Another TA and agreement on a new Expense Reimbursement Policy
Click here to RSVP to observe our next bargaining session! We held our 11th, 12th, and 13th bargaining sessions with the University on August 1st, 6th, and 8th (respectively). These were busy and productive sessions, during which we exchanged proposals on almost every...
Join Weill Cornell postdocs in their fight for a strong contract (WEDNESDAY AT NOON)!
Postdocs at Weill Cornell are asking for our help! Weill Cornell’s postdoc union WCMPU-UAW has been bargaining with their university for over a year. After months of progress, Cornell is suddenly using the Trump administration’s efforts to cut research funding as an...
Major Proposals Exchanged in the 10th Bargaining Session
Click here to RSVP to observe our next bargaining session! On Monday, July 14th, we held our 10th bargaining session with the University, and the tone and pace were markedly different from previous sessions. Both Parties came prepared with multiple counterproposals,...
9th Bargaining Session Update
On June 25th the University and UPROR-UAW had our 9th bargaining session. Until now, the University has not responded to most proposals, and their few counterproposals threaten to lower the standards already in place, leading postdocs to deliver an open letter signed...
Bargaining Summary: An Agreement on an Increase to Unit Members’ Compensation Rates and Continuing Discussions on Several Proposals
This past week, we held our sixth, seventh, and eighth bargaining sessions with the University. We currently have 22 articles on the table that you can follow on the bargaining tracker here. While the University has yet to counter many of the articles we proposed,...