Updates

Last Thursday, senior researchers from across Sinai delivered an Open Letter to the Mount Sinai administration, signed by a majority of Instructors and Scientists, urging them to bargain intensively to reach a fair agreement in a timely manner. The next day, we were...

Sign our Open Letter calling on Sinai to reach a fair contract in a timely manner Since winning our union election, we have elected a bargaining committee, collected input through bargaining surveys from a majority of researchers, and ratified a set of initial goals...

At our first bargaining session on October 1, Sinai insisted that future sessions be held only at their offices on 42nd Street instead of on the main campus (Upper East Side), where most of us work, or over Zoom. We explained that traveling to 42nd Street would...

NOTICE OF NOMINATION AND VACANCY ELECTION FOR THE UNION BARGAINING COMMITTEE (one [1] position; one [1] alternate position) October 16, 2025 Nominations are hereby declared open for the Researchers Organizing Committee at Sinai-UAW (ROCS-UAW) Bargaining Committee...

Yesterday, our elected bargaining committee met with the Sinai administration for our first bargaining session for Senior Researchers. We began by introducing ourselves and sharing a bit about our research and backgrounds. We were also joined by representatives from...

Senior researchers are the backbone of research at Sinai. We bring years of experience, drive projects forward, write and manage grants, publish impactful science, and mentor and train students, postdocs, and staff. Yet despite these contributions, we continue to face...

NOTICE OF NOMINATION AND VACANCY ELECTION FOR THE UNION BARGAINING COMMITTEE (two [2] positions; one [1] alternate position) September 23, 2025 Nominations are hereby declared open for the Researchers Organizing Committee at Sinai-UAW (ROCS-UAW) Bargaining Committee...

In addition to the proposed DHS rule change below, on Friday the federal administration imposed a new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas and created a new gold card immigrant visa, reducing the number of existing EB1 and EB2 visas available, as part of their efforts to...

Take action to protect federal research funding this week! Unionized researchers, including many of us at Sinai, have been organizing tirelessly this year to protect science funding. We’ve seen major successes fighting back against the federal government’s attacks on...

Join Cornell Postdocs practice picket! Postdocs at Weill Cornell Medicine have been fighting for over a year for a fair contract, but Cornell is still refusing to agree to basic job protections. At a time when international scholars are under attack by this...