Bargaining Updates
Order up! Basic human rights with a side of competitive compensation!
Next Friday, September 25th, join us at Peabody Heights Brewery and meet fellow postdocs at our union’s happy hour and social! The members of our elected Bargaining Committee have been working hard to improve working conditions for all postdocs at JHU by strengthening...
Continue the spirit of Labor Day
We hope you had a fun Labor Day weekend! Here is your chance to exercise your power in the labor movement. Will you stand with us now and raise the floor for workers everywhere in the US? Before anything else: our colleagues at NIH need us. Under a recent interagency...
Bargaining Update #14: The admin presents the Office of Institutional Equity
Topline Summary: Our elected Bargaining Committee met with the JHU admin on Monday for the 14th time. We introduced our other new Committee member, Andrew Chelius, and were joined by eight postdoc observers. This session focused entirely on the role of the Office of...
We keep us safe.
Next Monday, our elected Bargaining Committee will meet with the JHU administration and officials from JHU’s Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) to negotiate policies around OIE’s involvement in claims of harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. From having...
Bargaining Update #13: We passed counterproposals, they got tense.
Topline Summary: On Wednesday, our elected Bargaining Committee met with the JHU admin for the 13th time.We introduced one of our two new Committee members, Austin Ramsey, and were joined by three postdocs as observers. We presented the JHU admin with four...
PRO-UAW Bargaining Committee Vacancy Update
The nomination period for the Johns Hopkins Postdoctoral Researchers Organized-UAW Bargaining Committee is closed as of today. We are pleased to announce that exactly two (2) members accepted nomination to serve on the PRO-UAW Bargaining Committee. This means that the...
Bargaining Update #12: One Agreement Forward, Two Rejections Back
Topline Summary: Our elected Bargaining Committee met with the JHU admin on Monday for the 12th time, and we were joined by two postdocs as observers. We started the session by signing a Tentative Agreement (TA) on Union Rights and amending and re-signing our TA on...
Read and sign our open letter today!
Sign our Open Letter and share with your colleagues today! As you know, our Union is bargaining with the JHU administration for a first contract to improve our working conditions. Our Bargaining Committee (BC) has been negotiating and fighting on behalf of each and...
Bargaining Update #10: Questions and contradictions around policy persist, despite achieving some progress and one new tentative agreement.
Topline Summary: On July 7th, our elected Bargaining Committee had our 10th session with the JHU admin, and we were joined by three postdocs as observers. We reached a tentative agreement (TA) on Job Posting, which improves the information that supervisors are...
Bargaining Update #9: TA’s stalled despite productive session; our rights and safety are not up for debate.
Our elected Bargaining Committee had our ninth bargaining session with the JHU admin yesterday, and we were joined by six observers. We passed the JHU admin seven counterproposals, and they gave us six counterproposals in total. We are close to a tentative agreement...