Exciting news – today USC Grad Student Workers filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board! Along with the petition for a union election, a delegation of Grad Student Workers delivered union authorization cards signed by a supermajority (over 2,000) of USC GSWs.
Just before filing with the NLRB, we also delivered a letter, signed by hundreds of GSWs, to USC Provost Charles Zukoski and Senior Vice President Felicia A. Washington to request a fair process for verifying majority support for our union – you can read the letter here. We hope that the USC administration decides to respect the choice of thousands of GSWs to form a union and engage constructively moving forward.
Over the course of this academic year, thousands of conversations about forming a union have happened between Grad Student Workers at town halls, coffee hours, info-sessions, and more. Next year we will continue the process of building our union and working together for improvements like higher wages, better benefits, protections from abusive conduct, and more support for international GSWs.
If you have any questions or just want to learn more, please do not hesitate to simply respond to this email. You can also fill out this short survey to get more involved, follow GSWOC-UAW on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, or check out gswoc-usc.org.
In solidarity,
Negar Ahani, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Danny Goodelman, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Haotian Hang, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Fares Maimani, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Jason Vu, American Studies and Ethnicity
Cerianne Robertson, Annenberg
Hamsini Sridharan, Annenberg
Margot Yale, Art History
Elana Helou, Astronautical Engineering
Bennett Van Camp, Biology of Aging
Lynne Cherchia, Biomedical Engineering
James Eichenbaum, Biomedical Engineering
Alisa Peshina, Biomedical Engineering
Niki Tavakoli, Biomedical Engineering
Tristan McPhail, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Lucia Dalle Ore, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
Megan Cassingham, Chemistry
James Fortwengler, Chemistry
Tirthick Majumder, Chemistry
Sean Parsons, Chemistry
Allen Shariaty, Chemistry
Raven Althouse, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Anna Arcaro, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Maile McCann, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Stepp Mayes, Civil and Environmental Engineering
McKenna Peplinski, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Connor Sauceda, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Edie Adams, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
Selene Canter, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
Ana Iwataki, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
Nisarg P., Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
Sayan Ghosh, Computer Science
Lee Kezar, Computer Science
Brian Kim, Computer Science
Casandra Rusti, Computer Science
Sulyab Thottungal Valapu, Computer Science
Tori Cassady, Earth Sciences
Alex Dill, Earth Sciences
Maya Yanez, Earth Sciences
Shreya Bhardwaj, Economics
Guillermo Castro, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zhonghao Du, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mohamed Elsawaf, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Khaled Hassan, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Lorri Rao, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Max Lien, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Piril Nergis, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zalan Fabian, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zak Breckenridge, English
Bryan Byrdlong, English
Michael Deagler, English
Seth Fischer, English
Katie Googe, English
Lucas Iberico Lozada, English
Eleanor Batista-Malat, Gerontology
Lauren Kelly, History
Daniel Delgado, History
Qing Jin, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Suyanpeng Zhang, Industrial and Systems Engineering
Jessica Campbell, Linguistics
Elango Kumaran, Linguistics
Jun Lyu, Linguistics
Jennifer Beatty, Marine and Environmental Biology
Jenna Dilworth, Marine and Environmental Biology
Kyla Kelly, Marine and Environmental Biology
Cara Schiksnis, Marine and Environmental Biology
Maya Cratsley, Marshall
Sam Armon, Mathematics
J.E. Paguyo, Mathematics
Bixing Qiao, Mathematics
Kelly DeWeese, Molecular Biology
Andrew Janeiro, Molecular Biology
Alex Belohlavek, Music
Rebecca Stark, Neuroscience
Nancy Tran, Neuroscience
Yiyang Fang, Occupational Science
Madeline Parga, Occupational Science
Andrew Stewart, Philosophy
Emanuel Dallas, Physics and Astronomy
Anna Haynie, Physics and Astronomy
Dimple Sarnaaik, Physics and Astronomy
Stephanie Navarro, Population and Public Health Sciences
Julia Stal, Population and Public Health Sciences
Denton Cohen, Price
Jordy Coutin, Price
Jeimee Estrada, Price
Isaac Katten, Price
Aisling O’Reilly, Price
Marley Randazzo, Price
Jose Scott, Price
Caleb Schimke, Programs in Biomedical and Biological Science
Ariel Vonk, Programs in Biomedical and Biological Science
DJ Fernandez, Programs in Biomedical and Biological Science
Raquel Centeno, Political Science and International Relations
Jose Muzquiz, Political Science and International Relations
Melissa Watanabe, Political Science and International Relations
Ian Anderson, Psychology
Pragya Arya, Psychology
Ellen Herschel, Psychology
Dallace Francis, Quantitative and Computational Biology
Ho Ming Lam, Quantitative and Computational Biology
Vardges Tserunyan, Quantitative and Computational Biology
Meg Tiller, Religion
Shelby Smith, Rossier
Natsumi Ueda, Rossier
Lewis Brown, School of Cinematic Arts
Yoni Hirshberg, School of Cinematic Arts
Tania Sarfraz, School of Cinematic Arts
Rory O’Brien, Social Work
Maggie Davis, Sociology
Kyle Hulburd, Sociology
Maria Labourt, Sociology
Kritika Pandey, Sociology
Dawy Rkasnuam, Sociology