Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW
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This weekend we held our first-ever contract campaign retreat, bringing together
@UAW
postdoctoral workers
@spocuaw
@CPWUAW
@WCMPostdocUnion
@eruuaw
@PUPostdocs
from across New York City and the surrounding area! 1/2
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After a 12-day strike we have reached a tentative agreement with
@IcahnMountSinai
! This is a massive achievement and would not have been possible without years of efforts by hundreds of postdocs and our incredible allies who stood with us ✊🏽
#1u
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The ballots have been counted and we WON OUR UNION with 89.5% of
#postdocs
voting yes! The strength of this vote gives us a clear mandate for bargaining.
@IcahnMountSinai
, we look forward to meeting you at the bargaining table. Stmt:
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Mount Sinai can do better. We're calling on the institution to improve gender equity by providing a childcare fund.
#SinaiOnStrike
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“I chose my baby. But no one should have to make that choice.”
#StopForcingWomenOutOfAcademia
@IcahnMountSinai
#SinaiOnStrike
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Salary highlight from our new Tentative Agreement:
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🎉 Today we filed for our
#union
#election
with support from an overwhelming 80% of
#Postdocs
at
@IcahnMountSinai
!🎉
We look forward to the opportunity to affirm this
#democratic
mandate
and move towards
#bargaining
improvements to the postdoc experience at Mount Sinai.
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On August 10, we will begin voting to authorize a strike. This comes after hundreds of of postdocs
@IcahnMountSinai
and
@Columbia
joined mass meetings in support of this move. More than a year since we voted for our union, we say
#EnoughIsEnough
#FairContractNow
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Postdocs
@IcahnMountSinai
have voted by 91% to authorize our Bargaining Committee to call a strike if circumstances justify.
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Thank you for joining us
@nycDSA
! Come to the picket line and join our fight. We're fighting for equity, housing and childcare. (We also have great snacks and an endless supply of coffee). ✊🏽
#OnStrike
for a
#FairContract
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Today's informational picketing showed what it looks like when postdocs say enough is enough! We were joined by
@ameddiegibbs
and hundreds of our colleagues across campus to tell
@IcahnMountSinai
we deserve a
#FairContractNow
#StrikeReady
#1u
💪🖖
📸:
@peacemakerhuynh
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🎉 CONGRATULATIONS
@nihfellowsunite
! Welcome to the
@UAW
! ✊
We won our union! We are the largest union of federal employees to form in more than a decade, and the first union of Fellows ever at a federal research facility. We’ve made history together. 💪
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After more than four months of bargaining,
@IcahnMountSinai
STILL won’t agree to basic rights and protections - so we spoke up to tell them
#StopTheStall
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Hundreds of postdocs walked out of
@IcahnMountSinai
this morning demanding a contract that ensures equity. We remain united: housing and childcare are *essential* to postdocs. Can you hear us? Because
#NYC
did!
#OnStrike
#SeeYouAtThePicketLine
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Can you hear us now
@IcahnMountSinai
? This ULP strike is about equity and we're not leaving anyone behind.
#SinaiOnStrike
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With only
#1DayToGo
, our strike preparations are gearing up.
@IcahnMountSinai
continues to make proposals that would leave parents unfairly burdened and allow women to be pushed out of science. We're here, we're not going anywhere and we're fighting for what's fair.
#StrikeReady
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After more than a year of negotiations, our elected bargaining committee has called for an Unfair Labor Practices strike starting on December 6th to protest
@IcahnMountSinai
's unlawful behavior.
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📢 Tomorrow we are walking out of the lab
@IcahnMountSinai
@MountSinaiNYC
for a better academia that supports everyone, not just the privileged. Join us on the picket line.
#StrikeReady
#1dayToGo
✊
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DAY 7. We won't quit. We're standing for parents, for their kids, for a more equitable
@IcahnMountSinai
. Come join us at East 99th and Madison!
#SinaiOnStrike
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📢 Day 2 starting strong with flurries of snow and 🔥 speeches from
@bradlander
,
@tiffany_caban
, and
@WorkingFamilies
@AnaMariaforNY
and
@Jasgripper
! ✊
One Day Longer, One Day Stronger ✊️
Do you hear us
@IcahnMountSinai
@MountSinaiNYC
?
#OnStrike
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One day in. Thank you to all the incredible allies who showed up for us today.
#SinaiOnStrike
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If
@icahnmountsinai
can't hear our loud demands for
#equity
, for childcare and to stop pushing women out of academia, we hope they can read them clearly.
#OnStrike
for
#AFairContract
✊🏾
#OneDayLonger
#OneDayStronger
📸
@peacemakerhuynh
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Highlights of increased support for International postdocs from our new Tentative Agreement:
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As postdocs, we voted by ~90% to form our union
@IcahnMountSinai
because like graduate student employees across NYC and the country we ARE workers. We are the backbone of higher education and we deserve an equal voice in our working conditions. 💪🖖
#weareworkers
#unionyes
Graduate students are primarily students and trainees, not ordinary workers. Academia is a calling. I suspect unionization will tip the balance so faculty prefer, at the margin, to hire post-docs to do research in their labs rather than students.
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We've waited long enough! Each month, we face an effective pay cut due to inflation. We're voting this week to authorize our bargaining committee to call for a
#strike
if necessary to reach a
#FairContractNow
#EnoughIsEnough
1/2
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UAW academic workers continue their fight for a fair contract that will raise standards in higher ed for all of us. Their fight is our fight. If you can, donate to their hardship fund here:
“We aren’t going to let UC scare us from participating in a legally protected strike!” 📢✊🪧
#FairUCNow
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The picket line is 🔥🔥🔥 right now!!!
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HUGE turnout at our joint rally with
@SSWUAW
! Postdocs and student workers came together to urge
@IcahnMountSinai
to avoid further delays in bargaining and refrain from interfering with student workers right to form a union ✊✊
#StopTheStall
#UnionStrong
📸
@peacemakerhuynh
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After our historic strike vote,
@IcahnMountSinai
committed to respond to our economic proposals on Friday (9/29). Join us this Thursday (9/28) at 12pm for an Informational Picket to show Sinai that they must provide a real response to our demands!
#StrikeReady
#FairContractNow
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In 2023 we:
✅ organized the first ever postdoc strike in a private research institution in the US
✅ won a historic contract setting new standards in benefits and protections within our field
In 2024:
We will keep building our union to make the movement bigger and stronger ✊
In 2022 we:
✅ signed supermajority authorization cards
✅ won our union election by 89.5%
✅ ratified our bargaining goals + elected a bargaining committee
✅ started negotiations with Sinai
In 2023 we:
WIN AN INCREDIBLY STRONG CONTRACT ✊🖖
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📢 Strike Day 2 tomorrow: Rally at 10AM, E99th & Madison Ave featuring NYC elected reps
@bradlander
@tiffany_caban
#AnaMarieArchila
@jasgripper
. Dress warm & get ready to make more noise. Loud enough for
@IcahnMountSinai
to hear us!
#FairContractNow
#OnStrike
📸
@peacemakerhuynh
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In response to
@IcahnMountSinai
's unlawful behavior and failure to reach a timely agreement, today we delivered a notice to the Sinai administration that we will start our
#ULPstrike
on December 6, 2023 at 9am.
#FairContractNow
#ShutItDown
#14DaysToGo
✊
📸
@peacemakerhuynh
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⬇️ STOP PUSHING WOMEN OUT OF ACADEMIA, AND STOP IT NOW ⬇️
#SinaiOnStrike
Student workers supporting our post doc friends to get a fair contract! Sinai needs to be do better!
@spocuaw
@SSWUAW
@valentinealiss
#SinaiStrike
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📢Campaign Update: Today, we filed an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge against Sinai for making a targeted threat against international postdocs. Last week, Sinai sent an email claiming that “Holders of certain visa classifications may be affected in the event of a strike.” 1/2
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NYC is one of the most expensive cities world-wide, but
@IcahnMountSinai
continues to resist providing affordable postdoc housing throughout our appointments. Our Housing Working Group met to discuss how our demands would make Sinai more equitable and inclusive.
#FairContractNow
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Our strike
@IcahnMountSinai
begins in 3 days! The picket line starts at 9 am, followed by our Kick-Off Rally at E 99th and Madison Ave at 10 am, featuring NYC elected and community allies. Please join us if you can! ✊
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Today we delivered a letter signed by +150 plus international postdocs and allies from 37 countries, demanding that
@IcahnMountSinai
retracts their illegal threat towards those of us on visas.
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#WhenWeFightWeWin
✊🖖
"Postdocs celebrate 24% pay boost in one of the world’s most expensive cities"
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Gender inequity is one of the most serious challenges facing academia. If
@IcahnMountSinai
is serious about addressing this issue, they should agree to our proposal for a childcare fund to help cover the significant expenses parent postdocs face.
#FairContractNow
#OnStrike
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For postdoc parents
@IcahnMountSinai
, the daily costs of raising a family in NYC can feel like a constant series of financial emergencies. Sinai, support parents now!
#SinaiOnStrike
#FairContractNow
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📢 Tomorrow is Day 3 of our historic strike: We're excited for Public Advocate
@JumaaneWilliams
(10:30am), our Sinai + NYC union siblings (12pm), and
@SenatorCCleare
(2pm) to join us on the picket line!
#OneDayStronger
#OnStrike
✊
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📢 Join the picket line 🔥. We are fighting for housing, we are fighting for childcare, we are fighting for equity and we are fighting for respect. We are fighting everyone's fight, and we need everyone out. NOW!!!
LEAVE THE BENCH, FIGHT FOR WHAT'S FAIR!
#FairContractNow
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"Management decided that you had to go on strike..
@icahnmountsinai
can decide at any time that all of you can go back to work."
💯
@zohrankmamdani
!
We all want to go back to work- just need Sinai to take ONE tiny step towards equity. Until then, we'll
#KeepOnFighting
✊🏽
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The
@nycdsachoir
taught us some tunes at the picket line. Almost brought us some holiday feels. But like we said last year
#AllWeWantForTheHoliday
is a
#FairContract
✊🏽
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Tomorrow we have our 1st bargaining session with
@IcahnMountSinai
! To show them we’re
#ReadyToBargain
, colleagues delivered an open letter signed by a majority of
#postdocs
urging Sinai to negotiate intensively to reach a fair and timely agreement.
Letter:
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Do you know what we do on a break? We join other picket lines in
#NYC
!
#Solidarity
with
@law360union
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Today, we proudly joined a powerful practice picket organized by
@CPWUAW
as they prepare to strike if necessary to win a fair contract! 💪✊
#Solidarity
#FairContractNow
🚨 Today *hundreds* of postdocs walked out out their labs and offices to tell President Shafik and
@columbia
Board of Trustees, loud and clear, that we deserve a fair contract and we will not stop until we get it. We are
#STRIKEREADY
⚡️⚡️⚡️
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Thank you so much for the support
@AOC
! We're going to keep fighting for equity ✊🏽
#OneDayLonger
#OneDayStronger
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Big News: Our election starts next Tuesday! Keep a close eye on this account for details. And thank you to everyone who worked so hard to make this happen!
#UnionYes
#WeDeserveAUnion
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"We love our work & did not want to strike, but we have to stand up for ourselves. Sinai’s policies make it nearly impossible to afford childcare & live in NYC. They hold out a Need Not Apply sign to single mothers, parents & people from disadvantaged backgrounds."-
@andrea_j0seph
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Thank you to
@IcahnMountSinai
faculty who are standing with us on the picket line! We're grateful for your support 🙌🙌🙌
#FairContractNOW
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If you can, please give to our strike fund - it will help keep us on the line for the time it takes to win!
#SinaiOnStrike
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THANK YOU to every person and every group who has brought us food on the picket line. This is a community effort. Our hearts and stomachs are full 🥹
#SinaiOnStrike
#FairContractNow
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We are fighting for job security, enforceable protections against discrimination and harassment, and a better
#postdoc
experience overall. Better working conditions mean stronger science.
#FairContractNow
#StopTheStall
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#Postdocs
@Harvard
,
@Columbia
,
@UofCalifornia
and
@UW
have some thoughts on our
#union
election...
@hgsuuaw
@CPWUAW
@SW_Columbia
@UAW5810
@uaw2865
@uwrunited
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Today we were proud to stand with our striking
@UAW
siblings at the
@Stellantis
parts distribution center in Tappan, NY!
@CPWUAW
#StandUpStrike
#Solidarity
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.
@UAW
coming through for us!
#1u
Amazing to see support from our academic UAW siblings
@CPWUAW
@CfuUaw
@nyuresearchers
@WCMPostdocUnion
and of course
@mancillabrando
!
📢 9AM tomorrow, E 99th and Madison Ave
#SeeYouAtThePicketLine
✊
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Strike Day 2 is ✅!
Hundreds of us picketed in the snow with elected and community allies!
#OneDayLonger
#OneDayStronger
✊
Can you hear us
@IcahnMountSinai
?
📢 Day 2 starting strong with flurries of snow and 🔥 speeches from
@bradlander
,
@tiffany_caban
, and
@WorkingFamilies
@AnaMariaforNY
and
@Jasgripper
! ✊
One Day Longer, One Day Stronger ✊️
Do you hear us
@IcahnMountSinai
@MountSinaiNYC
?
#OnStrike
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At our rally with
@SSWUAW
,
@natyferressini
, read a solidarity statement from
@UAW5810
, the union of 11,000 Postdocs and AR at UC who recently went on strike to win the strongest postdoc contract in the country.
#UnionStrong
📸
@peacemakerhuynh
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Can you feel the power growing? Postdocs came in big numbers to the town hall
@IcahnMountSinai
today. We are ready to use our collective power to fight and win a contract that will transform our working conditions.
#UnionStrong
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Since we filed for our
#union
election, Mount Sinai has ignored repeated requests from
#postdocs
to stay neutral, instead raising baseless concerns about how
#unionizing
could “jeopardize” our relationship.
@IcahnMountSinai
, respect our right to choose freely.
#WeDeserveAUnion
I just received a guide how to talk postdocs out of voting for a union. Over my dead body. Postdocs, do yourself a favor and vote for a union.
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We are fighting for equity. Too many people are pushed out of academia because they don't have childcare supports.
#SinaiOnStrike
@IcahnMountSinai
strike day 2 with some immensely appreciated support from NYU in solidarity with Mt Sinai postdocs 🥰🫶🏼
@rikejo_mari
@spocuaw
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As we prepare to strike
@IcahnMountSinai
with
#2DaysToGo
, you can get involved to make our strike as strong as possible! Having a large & highly visible picket line makes our strike stronger. Join the majority of postdocs and sign up for shifts: 1/5
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Great article by two
@UAW5810
members. We are fighting for a fair contract because working in unstable and underpaid positions makes it harder to do critical biomedical research.
Postdoctoral research work is poorly paid and highly unstable. It’s also socially necessary, crucial to solving big problems like climate change and pandemics. For workers and the public, postdocs must unionize.
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Institutions across NYC are raising postdoc salaries and
@IcahnMountSinai
is lagging far behind. While insufficient, these raises are a response to researchers organizing across the city. We are voting YES to authorize a strike because we deserve better.
#EnoughIsEnough
Yesterday NYU announced an increase in the minimum salary for Langone postdocs up to $70,000 (beginning Dec 1, 2023) and graduate assistants up to $51,000 (beginning Sept 1, 2023)!
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“Mount Sinai postdocs’ victory is part of a growing movement of successful union organizing efforts that have kicked off around the country”
Postdocs/Researchers everywhere-
#JoinTheMovement
! Get in touch if you want help getting started 😉
Starting salaries at New York’s Icahn School of Medicine rise to $72,500 as part of a deal led by unionized researchers
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Highlights of family-friendly policies from our new Tentative Agreement:
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Members of both
@CPWUAW
and
@spocuaw
voted overwhelmingly to amalgamate as part of one Local Union in NYC! We’re excited to continue building researcher power at both of our institutions and across the city more broadly ✊
#UnionStrong
#1u
🚨We are excited to announce the results of the amalgamation vote from 1/18/2024. Membership has approved the process to begin the formation of an amalgamated local with our postdoc colleagues at Mr. Sinai (SPOC)! Stay tuned for more updates soon, NYC is a union city!🎉🎉
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🚨‼️📢NYC allies📢‼️ 🚨: We won our union 8 months ago, but
@IcahnMountSinai
has continued to drag their feet on reaching a fair contract! Join us for a rally on Thurs. 2/23 at 12:30pm on 98th & Madison Avenue to tell Sinai: Stop Stalling on Basic Rights!
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Today academic workers at the University of California are making US labor history. We are inspired by the union power you have built
@uaw5810
@sruuaw
@uaw2865
Solidarity from NYC ✊
“We’re the backbone of the university,” he said, “and I have a hard time seeing how operations are going to be maintained with us on the picket line.” via
@NYTimes
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As academic workers, we are proud of the work we do
@IcahnMountSinai
. Our research makes the world a better place for everyone and a fair
#firstcontract
will make our research even stronger. Happy Labor Day,
#MtSinai
#postdocs
,
@CPWUAW
and all our fellow
@UAW
workers! 💪🖖
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We are so grateful to
@ZohranKMamdani
,
@votejgr
and our academic allies from
@pupsuaw
for showing up at our picket line in solidarity with our fight. We're all fighting the same fight. And we'll win big wins together.
#SinaiOnStrike
#1u
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Do not miss this piece that pulls back the curtain on the admin culture
@IcahnMountSinai
. Thank you
@HuntsKors
for sharing your perspective
#EnoughIsEnough
#FairContractNow
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Back at it again!
@UAW
academic workers from
@spocuaw
@CPWUAW
@SW_Columbia
will continue to show up and support striking
@nysna
nurses until they win!
#NYCNursesStrike
#1u
✊
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Postdocs in NYC have had enough! Join us and
@CPWUAW
for mass meetings on 7/26 to determine next steps to reach fair contracts and a more just and equitable working environment for postdocs at our respective institutions, without further delays.
#FairSinaiNow
#FairContract
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Fun fact: more postdocs voted to authorize a strike than voted to form our union last year! That's
#momentum
#EnoughIsEnough
#SinaiSAV
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We're glad the
@NIH
is providing a higher annual increase to postdoc stipends this year. When researchers organize across the country we raise national standards. However, this increase is still insufficient for basic expenses in NYC - it’s
#AGoodStartButNotEnough
#UnionStrong
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We're starting the second week of our strike and we are NOT backing down. Please consider giving what you can to support our strike fund - we will win this together!
#SinaiOnStrike
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We joined
@CPWUAW
for their bargaining kick off yesterday to send a clear message to
@IcahnMountSinai
and
@Columbia
: we are united and we will not back down until we all get a fair contract
#UnionStrong
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We stand in solidarity with residents at Elmhurst Hospital in Queens
@cirseiu
fighting for better wages and working conditions.
@mountSinaiNYC
- It’s time to do the right thing and pay your doctors fairly!
#1u
#NYCDocsStrike
✊
For our patients, for our community, for ourselves— because
#Queens
deserves better.
@MountSinaiNYC
, end this now.
#QueensStrikeReady
#NYCDocsStrike
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“The pressure is on Mount Sinai,”
@andrea_j0seph
said. “We hope that Mount Sinai resolves its unfair labor practices and works with us so we can avoid a strike.”
#FairContractNow
#WeAreStrikeReady
?
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1/6 Yesterday, we filed a second Unfair Labor Practice charge against the
@IcahnMountSinai
administration due to their decision to unilaterally change their practices for granting extensions to postdoc housing.
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Thank you
@ShawnFainUAW
!
We will keep fighting until we win ✊🏽 Proud to be
@UAW
and to keep fighting the good fight!
#OnStrike
for
#AFairContract
Today is
@spocuaw
’s 7th day on the picket line, as the first postdoc researchers in the private sector to walk out on strike.
As
@ShawnFainUAW
said, “You produce scientific breakthroughs, so you deserve record gains. Groundbreaking research should mean groundbreaking contracts.”
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"I write to urge the leadership of
@IcahnMountSinai
to refrain from any effort to influence Mount Sinai postdoctoral research employees’ decision to form their union."
Thank you for standing up for
#postdocs
, Deputy Speaker
@DianaAyalaNYC
!
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Postdocs will keep fighting for equity
@icahnmountsinai
! It's been incredible to have support from so many of our
@uaw
siblings! One day longer, One day stronger 💪🏽
#OnStrike
for
#AFairContract
It's week 2 of the historic Mount Sinai Postdoc strike for economic justice! Check out
@spocuaw
rallying, chanting, marching, and stretching on the picket line.
#StandUpUAW
#SinaiOnStrike
#1u
📸
@peacemakerhuynh
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Whose Union? Our Union! Just 3 weeks since we ratified our historic first contract by an overwhelming 99%, we’re excited to start signing up as union members! We’re ready to build strong majority membership so we can amplify our voice and secure even greater gains together ✊
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Postdoc parents struggle daily to balance our work and our families. We shouldn’t have to choose.
#SinaiOnStrike
#ParentsPicket
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