by gswoc | May 26, 2023 | Bargaining, Updates
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...
by gswoc | May 19, 2023 | Bargaining, Updates
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,...
by gswoc | May 12, 2023 | Updates
My name is Pırıl and I’m a RA in the ECE department. As we near the end of the semester, I wanted to reach out and review what a remarkable year it has been for Graduate Student Workers at USC — and to highlight the exciting path that lies ahead of us. Just in the...
by gswoc | May 5, 2023 | Updates
Graduate Student Workers have spoken: 98% of GSWs want to maintain or improve our healthcare coverage. USC administration has instead chosen to lobby at the state capitol in support of a bill that would allow them to gut the student health insurance plan. If...
by gswoc | Apr 26, 2023 | Bargaining, Updates
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...
by gswoc | Apr 12, 2023 | Bargaining, Updates
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...
