Email Updates
Happening This Thursday, June 15th: GSWs Take Action for an Equitable USC
My name is Jackie Johnson, and I’m a fifth-year PhD Candidate in the Cinema and Media Studies department. I’m also one of the members of the bargaining team, representing all USC Graduate Student Workers (GSWs) at the table! I’m writing to tell you about a pivotal...
6/1 Bargaining Session Update
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,...
Union Rights are GSW Rights, and the Fight to Win Them Begins on June 1st!
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...
5/18 Bargaining Update
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,...
Building On An Incredible Year For USC Graduate Student Workers
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...
SB-607: USC Administration’s Bad-Faith Attempt to Gut Our Health Insurance
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...
First Bargaining Session, First Tentative Agreement!
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...
4/11 Bargaining Update: Initial Meeting with USC
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...
Here’s Why I – and Hundreds of other GSWs – are Signing Onto the IBD’s!
My name is Katie and I am a 6th year PhD candidate in the English Department. I’m writing to tell you a little bit about why I was proud to sign onto the Initial Bargaining Demands -- and why you should do the same. The Initial Bargaining Demands outline a bold...
GSWOC Updates: Initial Bargaining Demands!
My name is Stepp and I am a 4th year Research Assistant in the Environmental Engineering Department. I’m writing to please ask everyone to take a moment to read and add your name to the Initial Bargaining Demands! Click Here to Sign These demands outline core goals...