Updates
November 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…
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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…
Read MoreSeptember 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…
Read MoreAug 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…
Read MoreAug 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…
Read MoreAugust 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…
Read MoreJuly 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…
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