Updates
Fund NY Science Town Hall, 3/3, at Sinai! Join Us!
RSVP to Sinai-wide Town Hall to Fund NY Science! As you know, the Trump Administration has proposed devastating cuts to NIH funding, threatening life-saving research and the jobs of tens of thousands of research workers. For the past several months we've been fighting...
Sinai tries to weaken standards – we intend to raise them
Click here to observe our next bargaining session on March 3rd! Last Wednesday, we had another bargaining session with the Sinai administration. As we all know, attacks on higher education this past year have made securing a union contract even more urgent. Because of...
Sinai claims standard rights are unnecessary, burdensome
RSVP to observe an upcoming bargaining session with the Sinai administration! Last Friday, we had our fifth bargaining session. Previously, we had proposed a package of 3 articles that matched what Sinai agreed to more than two years ago with unionized postdocs....
Fighting to fund NY science + a concerning bargaining session
Last Tuesday, we had our 4th bargaining sessions for Instructors and Scientists with the Sinai administration. Our last session before that was on 12/1, more than a month prior. We were disappointed to see that Sinai's counter proposals on Job Posting, Workload,...
[RSVP] Virtual State-wide Town Hall for NY Science Funding!
Right now, the New York Governor is deciding whether to invest billions of dollars into state-funded biomedical research. RSVP for the Virtual State-wide Town Hall on January 9th to show Gov. Hochul there is widespread support for science funding in New York! After a...
[take action] Sign the open letter to Gov. Hochul for state-based science funding
Support state-based research funding in New York! Over the past year, unionized researchers across the country have been fighting back against the federal government’s attacks on science and higher education. While we’ve made progress, many of us continue to be deeply...
Rally with UAW for Universal Child Care in NYC (12/11, 10am)
Rally with UAW for Universal Childcare this Thursday at 10am! Nearly half of women scientists in the U.S. leave academia after having their first child. As unionized researchers, we know that having stronger access to childcare support for those of us with small...
Bargaining Update: More time at the table needed
Yesterday, we held our third bargaining session with the Sinai administration. Sinai continues to insist on negotiating with Instructors and Scientists separately, so we had two back-to-back sessions, each for one hour. During each of these sessions, we presented...
[RSVP for the Rally] Support Einstein Postdocs Fighting for a Fair Contract!
Click here to support Postdocs at Albert Einstein at their Rally on December 3! Our postdoc colleagues at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have been fighting for over a year for a fair contract, but the administration is still refusing to commit to basic rights...
First Agreements Reached in Bargaining
This past Friday, we held our second bargaining session with the Sinai administration. We are pleased to announce that by the end of the session, we had reached several Tentative Agreements for both the Instructors Unit and the Scientists Unit. Because the Sinai...