Bargaining Updates

Sign Up for Week 2 Picket Shifts! In order to qualify for strike benefits you must participate in the equivalent of 20 hours of strike duty per week (e.g. five 4-hour shifts on the picket line or other activity that supports the strike). Because of last week’s massive...

One day longer, one day stronger! Sign Up for Week 2 Picket Shifts! We met with the Sinai administration today about their attestation form and other bargaining topics. We didn’t reach any new agreements during the session, although Sinai was more forthcoming about...

Today was our second day on strike and it was great to see hundreds of postdocs and many new faces, despite the cold! You can sign up here for tomorrow’s picket shift. If you wish to receive strike pay and health benefits, please come to the picket line tomorrow to...

Sign up for a delivery picket shift to increase the power of our strike! Hundreds of postdocs showed up today for Day 1 of our Unfair Labor Practice Strike! Our day began with speeches from postdocs at Sinai and Columbia, a Sinai student worker, and the UAW Region 9A...

Since sending our most recent proposal to a fair contract yesterday evening, our elected bargaining committee has yet to receive a response addressing our core demands for equity at Mount Sinai. We will therefore be on strike today at 9am. Find more details on our...

We updated you earlier this evening on Sinai’s proposal and the remaining differences we are trying to bridge to reach an agreement. In an effort to continue making progress, we prepared a counter with significant movement, which we emailed Sinai earlier this evening....

At today’s session with the Sinai administration we saw some more progress towards reaching an agreement - read their proposal here. Sinai agreed to a separate parental leave bank of 30 business days for a postdoc’s appointment. While this is progress, it still falls...

Sinai has agreed to another session today, December 5 at 2:30-3:00pm. Click here to RSVP.  We remain committed to reaching a fair agreement that makes Sinai more equitable for all, including parents and those without access to affordable housing, and we hope that...

“Sinai’s proposals today were still lacking for families and for women in particular. If they can raise salaries for all of us, they can support childcare, parental leave, and housing for a minority of us. These improvements would make Sinai more equitable and avoid...

Today Mount Sinai came with a new proposal in response to the counter we sent over the weekend. Their offer today showed some further improvement in several areas, but only minimal progress on core priorities that other unionized postdocs at institutions like Columbia...