Bargaining Updates

I’m Megan Cassingham, a 4th year PhD candidate in Chemistry. I’m excited to share with you how yesterday’s bargaining session went.  The bargaining team was able to achieve two Tentative Agreements (TAs) with USC Administration, on Travel and Posting. Importantly,...

My name is Ashley Lehr, and I’m a 3rd year in the Programs in Biomedical and Biological Sciences on the Health Sciences Campus. I research ErbB3 regulation of colonic deep crypt secretory cells in homeostasis and after injury, and I also help out with GSWOC-UAW! I’m...

I’m Stepp, a 4th year PhD candidate in Environmental Engineering. I’m excited to give an update on yesterday’s bargaining session.  In this session we proposed 11 articles, and reached tentative agreements on 4 of them. These articles spanned a wide variety of topics,...

Greetings from the bargaining team! I’m Wes Wise (he/him), a second-year math PhD student. Yesterday, April 25th, we had our first full bargaining session with the university. We delivered our initial bargaining demands to the University, which were endorsed by a...

Yesterday was the first meeting between our bargaining team and USC administration. We had a very productive discussion about GSWs’ goals for negotiations and setting up future meetings. Key takeaways from the meeting: For the remainder of April and May, we intend to...