Campaign Updates

Increasing graduate worker pressure on management won victories in Friday’s bargaining session! Grad workers’ collective activity pushed Penn to make progress on Grievance and Arbitration, reaching a tentative agreement. This article, often called the “backbone” of a...

Today, graduate workers delivered to the Provost’s office our petition demanding Penn admin agree to enshrine strong protections against harassment, discrimination, and abuse in our contract. The petition has been signed by 2,042 graduate workers—the majority of grad...

At yesterday’s bargaining session, Penn admin brought five counterproposals: Travel, Discipline and Dismissal, Management and Academic Rights, Union Rights, and Prohibition Against Discrimination and Harassment. Additionally, admin introduced a new proposal outlining...

At last Friday’s bargaining session, grad workers presented a new counterproposal on Discrimination and Harassment that includes the core demands outlined in our petition addressed to Provost Jackson. Here’s a summary of Friday’s session: We presented a...

Grad workers’ continued pressure on admin led to another productive bargaining session on Tuesday. Penn admin presented a response on Discipline and Dismissal, which they’ve been sitting on since November 21st. Admin also delivered a counterproposal on Prohibition of...

Mounting graduate worker pressure on management won two Tentative Agreements in yesterday’s bargaining session! Between grad workers’ successful January rally, packing the bargaining room in support of international student worker rights, and continuous pressure on...

Yesterday, graduate workers met with the University for another bargaining session. After over 150 graduate workers packed the bargaining room last Friday, we came to this session ready to make movement on our contract. Following a day of back and forth on several...

On Friday, graduate workers met with Penn admin for our 11th bargaining session. Over 150 grad workers packed the bargaining room to defend the rights of international grads! We presented our proposal on Protections for Immigrant and International Workers. To...

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...

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...