by @getupadmin | Feb 18, 2025 | Updates
Yesterday, graduate workers met with Penn admin for our 10th bargaining session. Despite getting off to a productive start and reaching a tentative agreement on Employment Files, admin wasted our time by responding to the wrong Job Postings proposal. The University...
by @getupadmin | Feb 13, 2025 | Updates
Yesterday, graduate workers met with Penn admin for our third bargaining session of the Spring semester. Following our Rally for a Fair Contract on January 28th, both parties came ready to make progress on negotiations. We opened our discussion yesterday by presenting...
by @getupadmin | Jan 30, 2025 | Updates
Yesterday, graduate workers met with Penn for our second bargaining session of the Spring semester. On the heels of Tuesday’s Rally for a Fair Contract, we came into bargaining ready to make substantial progress. During the session we introduced three new...
by @getupadmin | Jan 15, 2025 | Updates
Yesterday, graduate workers met with Penn admin for our first bargaining session of the Spring semester. Several graduate workers gave testimony during the session about how Penn’s current policies regarding discrimination and harassment have failed them, highlighting...
by @getupadmin | Dec 10, 2024 | Updates
Yesterday, graduate workers met with Penn admin for our sixth bargaining session. The petition signed by over 1,300 graduate workers made an impact. Grad workers also put pressure on the admin team by packing the bargaining room and delivering powerful testimonials on...
by @getupadmin | Dec 6, 2024 | Updates
Yesterday, graduate workers met with Penn admin for our fifth bargaining session. While we pushed the administration to make progress on a few issues, we were disappointed yet again by management’s lack of engagement with a large number of our proposals. Here’s what...