Email Updates

July 11, 2022 Nominations are hereby declared open for the Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW (SPOC-UAW) Bargaining Committee (five [5] positions): All eligible Union supporters [all Mount Sinai Postdoctoral Fellows who are currently employed by the institute...

July 6, 2022 To RSVP for a Union Town Hall on our next steps, click here https://bit.ly/spoc-next-steps On June 23rd, we won our union election by an overwhelming 89.5%. This is a strong mandate for bargaining and gives us more power to advocate for improvements when...

July 1, 2022 RSVP for a Town Hall discussion on our next steps towards collective bargaining! Last week we won our union election by 89.5%. This is a strong mandate for bargaining and gives us more power to advocate for improvements when we enter negotiations with...

June 23, 2022 The NLRB just finished counting ballots and we voted by an overwhelming 89.5% (317-yes to 37-no), in favor of Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW (SPOC-UAW) as our union. We will have more information soon regarding next steps in our campaign. ...

Voting starts tomorrow in our historic union election. Since many of us began talking about forming a union more than a year ago, we’ve had conversations with colleagues across departments, town halls, and community events with other NYC researchers. We are proud of...

 June 15, 2002 UPDATED Union Election Dates: Wednesday, 6/22 and Thursday, 6/23. RSVP for our 4th informational town hall this Thursday, 6/16. RSVP for our 5th (virtual) town hall this Friday, 6/17. Updates on the growing national movement of academic workers in the...

June 13, 2022 We are excited to announce that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has scheduled our union election for Tuesday, June 21st and Wednesday, June 22nd, in person at the Patricia and Robert Levinson Student Center in the Annenberg Building! As...

It has come to our attention that the Sinai administration may have asked departments to withhold pay increases and promotions during the period between the filing of our petition for a union election and our vote. If you are having an issue related to Sinai...

June 1, 2022 Today the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) held a Hearing on the logistics of our election with representatives from Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW (SPOC-UAW) and from the Sinai administration. The primary subject of the hearing was...

May 31, 2022 Register for our Virtual Postdoc Union Town Hall! AND Read our review of Sinai’s most recent “questions and answers” email. We are writing with five updates to help keep everyone informed as we move towards our union election, where we will have the...