Email Updates

Last week we and our student worker colleagues talked with attendees of the Friedman Brain Institute's 15th anniversary about Sinai's opposition to improving our working conditions, and how they can support our joint campaigns. In their first response to our economic...

Hundreds of postdocs picketed on campus last Thursday to protest delays and call for real progress on economic issues and workplace protections. The Sinai administration responded to our economic proposals at last Friday’s session after a three-month delay. These...

Yesterday, we had a short bargaining session to make progress on non-economic proposals before Sinai’s anticipated response to our economic proposals on September 29. We continued to discuss just cause protections, with Sinai reiterating their desire to retain the...

RSVP for a Webinar with UC and UW Postdoc Strikers TOMORROW, 9/21 at 11:00 AM! Tomorrow we will hold an informational webinar with our fellow unionized postdocs at Columbia University, featuring researchers from the University of California and the University of...

In 2022, Sinai postdocs joined hundreds of fellow UAW workers from across sectors in NYC at the Labor Day Parade. March with NYC Postdocs at the Labor Day Parade this Saturday, 9/9! UAW members will be marching together at the New York City Labor Day parade on...

We demand that Sinai retracts their threat to international workers: sign the letter here!  You may have seen an email from Deans Nestler and Filizola to all postdocs at Sinai stating that “holders of certain visa classifications may be affected in the event of a...

RSVP for our Town Hall on next steps from our strike vote, tomorrow at 12pm! After last week’s announcement that we voted by an overwhelming 91% to authorize a strike, yesterday we started to see a response to this increase in pressure. However, Sinai’s response was...

RSVP for Our Bargaining Session TOMORROW (August 29th) from 9-11am! Last week, we voted by an overwhelming 91% to authorize our bargaining committee to call a strike if circumstances justify. If Mount Sinai understands the level of frustration so many of us feel, they...

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Strike Authorization Vote, which ended at midnight yesterday. Sinai postdocs voted by 91% to authorize our elected Bargaining Committee to call a strike if circumstances justify.  Total ballots cast: 377Yes: 342No: 35 Our...

"We voted YES!! International postdocs keep science running at Sinai! We deserve job security, financial stability, and a workplace free of discrimination and harassment.” We had a great start to our strike authorization vote last week, with hundreds of postdocs...