Join the Membership Action Team
Join the fight with your colleages and come to Membership Action Team meetings on Wednesdays in TGS Commons at 5pm. Vegan food is provided!
Sign Your FERPA Release Today!
Admin has been hiding behind FERPA to exclude people from the Bargaining Unit.
Signing your FERPA Waiver helps our union fight with you!
Contract Ratified March 15th!
After years of organizing campus-wide Graduate Workers at Northwestern University have a contract!
Join the Membership Action Team
Join the fight with your colleages and come to Membership Action Team meetings on Wednesdays in TGS Commons at 5pm. Vegan food is provided!
Sign Your FERPA Release Today!
Admin has been hiding behind FERPA to exclude people from the Bargaining Unit.
Signing your FERPA Waiver helps our union fight with you!
July 27 Bargaining Update
Fourth Bargaining Session Complete! TLDR: Two more Tentative Agreements today! Check for updates in the bargaining tracker. Admin questioned the validity of our democratically elected union in an effort to push back against union shop Admin proposed censoring our ability to have union conversations on “company time” Union Wednesdays begin next week for the whole month of August! Meet before…
Read MoreJuly 3rd Bargaining Update
Third day of bargaining complete! TLDR We reached two () Tentative Agreements today! Check for updates in the bargaining tracker. Admin introduced counter-proposals that would remove protections for discrimination based on race, gender, and other protected classes from our proposed grievance procedure. Hot off the heels of bargaining day , come to our CAT meeting today (at TGS Commons or on zoom) at…
Read MoreJune 26th Bargaining Update
Second day of bargaining complete! TLDR We reached two () Tentative Agreements today! Check for updates in the bargaining tracker. Admin introduced counter-proposals that would remove protections for discrimination based on race, gender, and other protected classes from our proposed grievance procedure. Hot off the heels of bargaining day , come to our CAT meeting today (at TGS Commons or on zoom) at…
Read MoreAugust General Membership Meeting 08-14-2024 5:30pm Tech LR4 & on Zoom
8/14 GMM Topics: Steward Election Structure Proposal, Dues Policy, Data Code of Ethics, Financial Report, Trustee Nominations. JOIN US AT GMM TO GIVE INPUT AND VOTE!
Read MoreJuly General Membership Meeting 07-11-2024 5:30pm Tech L211 & on Zoom
New General Membership Meeting Structure Main Decision-Making Body for Our Union Monthly 2nd Thurs. on odd months 2nd Wed. on even months Moving to Robert’s Rules Of Order Format Committee Reports Old Business New Business Motions, seconds, etc. Special 7/11 GMM Topic We have an opportunity to get a Referendum on the Evanston 7th Ward…
Read MoreNo Funding for 6+ Years Workers in 13+ Depts! Are You Affected Too?
TL;DR: Graduate workers 6th-year and above are being abruptly and unjustly denied all funding to continue their degree. International workers are under threat of deportation within the next few weeks. Fill out this survey if you are affected and join in the fight to stop admin from getting away with this! Some of…
Read MoreContract Ratified!
Members have spoken and YOU have a union contract! Ratification vote results have been fully tallied by OpaVote. Contract is ratified: 1713 Y to 647 N Prior to 3 PM CT on March 13th, 2,525 Northwestern grad workers signed NUGW-UE Local 1122 member cards. 2360 members cast their vote for a turnout of 93.47% of NUGW-UE Local 1122 membership!…
Read MoreFull Tentative Agreement BC Recommendation
This is the Bargaining Committee’s first official communication since yesterday’s bargaining session. The Bargaining Committee officially recommends this Tentative Agreement (TA), as outlined below, to members. First, a TL;DR of what’s in our tentative agreement: A guaranteed base stipend of $41,000 starting June 2024, $45,000 starting September 2024 (a 21.8% increase over the current base stipend), and an $1,000 signing bonus immediately upon…
Read MoreFeb 01 Bargaining Update
Fourteenth Bargaining Session Complete TLDR: ESCALATION WORKS! Our 1000+ strike pledges led to big wins, including 100% dental and 100% vision coverage. Admin continues to lowball us in compensation and support for international workers. But now we are in a better position than ever to put their feet to the fire. All hands on deck!…
Read MoreJan 10 Bargaining Update
Thirteenth Bargaining Session Complete TLDR: Admin came back to the table with more unsatisfactory counterproposals and made minimal movement yet again. TAs today. Despite NU’s lowballing, we are all still committed to settling a contract. In a show of our seriousness, we presented a reasonable counter on compensation, including 48.8k in annual pay, and await…
Read MoreDec 13 Bargaining Update
Twelfth Bargaining Session Complete TLDR: After 55 days of stalling, the Northwestern administration finally presented their “counters” to our economic proposals. The message was clear: disrespect. With 1000+ grad workers taking the wage survey, nearly 100 grad workers packing the hall to the bargaining room in October, and 500+ grad workers rallying for Pay, Power,…
Read MoreNovember 01 Bargaining Update
Eleventh Bargaining Session Complete TLDR: We PACKED THE HALLS and GOT RESULTS! FOUR Tentative Agreements today: Non-Discrimination, Union Security, Management Rights, and No Strike, No Lockout ALL language proposals have been TA’d FULL FOCUS to econ now Big wins in agency shop and ability to grieve abuse of authority…we deserve and need these protections and…
Read MoreOctober 19 Bargaining Update
Tenth Bargaining Session Complete TLDR: THREE Tentative Agreement today: Discipline & Discharge, Workload, and Labor Management Committee! TWO language proposals left: Union Security and Nondiscrimination Economic proposals have reached the table Come out to our Speak Out/Scavenger Hunt on Friday (10/20) to speak out about Union Shop, Nondiscrimination, and NU Finances! Pack the halls for our 11/1…
Read MoreOctober 3 Bargaining Update
Ninth Bargaining Session Complete TLDR: ONE Tentative Agreement today: International Employee Rights! We’re waiting on admin to deliver counters to our articles and information we need. The fall is heating up! Make your voice heard-fill out the wage survey (MEMBERS CHECK YOUR EMAILS!), join walkthroughs, attend walkthrough trainings, and come to the NUGW-UE history session on…
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September 14 Bargaining Update
Eighth Bargaining Session Complete! TLDR: FOUR Tentative Agreements today and ALL language proposals are being actively negotiated! (check them out on the bargaining tracker) We reached a TA on Appointment Notification, giving workers much clearer information about job expectations and responsibilities for TA and RA positions. We continue to fight for a range of employee…
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Aug 30 Bargaining Update
Seventh Bargaining Session Complete TLDR: Three Tentative Agreements today, the most we’ve ever had in one session! HUGE win for upper year grad workers in cases of terminated or canceled appointments Admin continues to ignore the inextricable link between our roles as students and employees in our Discipline & Discharge article…and we continue to fight…
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Aug 23 Bargaining Update
Sixth Bargaining Session Complete TLDR: One more Tentative Agreement today, and it’s a BIG one: the Grievance Procedure. Check details in the bargaining tracker. Admin gave us an egregious counter proposal on international worker rights. Give us your testimonies to read at the table next week. Of the 22 articles on the table, we have…
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August 09 Bargaining Update
Fifth Bargaining Session Complete! TLDR: 1 more Tentative Agreement today! Check for updates in the bargaining tracker The athletics scandal has exposed Northwestern’s inadequate harassment prevention policies to the national eye. We continued to push for non-discrimination language backed by a grievance procedure to ensure a safer future for graduate workers Open shop outrage: NU…
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July 27 Bargaining Update
Fourth Bargaining Session Complete! TLDR: Two more Tentative Agreements today! Check for updates in the bargaining tracker. Admin questioned the validity of our democratically elected union in an effort to push back against union shop Admin proposed censoring our ability to have union conversations on “company time” Union Wednesdays begin next week for the whole month of August! Meet before…
Read MoreJuly 3rd Bargaining Update
Third day of bargaining complete! TLDR We reached two () Tentative Agreements today! Check for updates in the bargaining tracker. Admin introduced counter-proposals that would remove protections for discrimination based on race, gender, and other protected classes from our proposed grievance procedure. Hot off the heels of bargaining day , come to our CAT meeting today (at TGS Commons or on zoom) at…
Read MoreJune 26th Bargaining Update
Second day of bargaining complete! TLDR We reached two () Tentative Agreements today! Check for updates in the bargaining tracker. Admin introduced counter-proposals that would remove protections for discrimination based on race, gender, and other protected classes from our proposed grievance procedure. Hot off the heels of bargaining day , come to our CAT meeting today (at TGS Commons or on zoom) at…
Read MoreAugust General Membership Meeting 08-14-2024 5:30pm Tech LR4 & on Zoom
8/14 GMM Topics: Steward Election Structure Proposal, Dues Policy, Data Code of Ethics, Financial Report, Trustee Nominations. JOIN US AT GMM TO GIVE INPUT AND VOTE!
Read MoreJuly General Membership Meeting 07-11-2024 5:30pm Tech L211 & on Zoom
New General Membership Meeting Structure Main Decision-Making Body for Our Union Monthly 2nd Thurs. on odd months 2nd Wed. on even months Moving to Robert’s Rules Of Order Format Committee Reports Old Business New Business Motions, seconds, etc. Special 7/11 GMM Topic We have an opportunity to get a Referendum on the Evanston 7th Ward…
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