Fall 2022 – Northwestern University Graduate Workers

Fight for professional standards in labs & classrooms

By Communications Committee | December 12, 2022

Purple Background with big white letters saying "Professional Standards" next to a drawing of hand putting a ballot in a voting box.

You all should know how truly astounding it is that 2000+ of us signed cards authorizing a union election in under one month. Now, in two weeks almost 1000 of us have already pledged to vote YES on election day. We are the third largest union filing in the country in 2022, only trailing our…

Is our pay competitive at NU?

By Communications Committee | December 6, 2022

Purple Background with big white letters saying "Competitive Pay" next to a drawing of hand putting a ballot in a voting box.

In just one month, a supermajority of over 2000 graduate workers across all departments and schools at Northwestern signed their union cards and made it clear that YES we want a graduate student union. Now, we are standing together as we prepare to vote YES when the union election day comes. We’ll soon have more…

Fall GMM-2 (Thursday Dec 01)

By NUGW | November 29, 2022

Flyer for NUGW's December General Member Meeting. The meeting is Thursday Dec 01 at 5 PM CT. Evanston location is Fisk 217, Chicago-campus location is Morton 4-647. The middle of the banner has an image of grad workers leading the March for Majority to deliver NUGW's recognition demands to Northwestern Admin.

Your commitment has made our card campaign a resounding success – thanks to you we are ahead of schedule! With a union election to vote YES on NUGW on the horizon, it is more important than ever to keep membership informed, so we are having a second General Member Meeting (GMM) this quarter to provide…