OSU weighs COVID-19 vaccine mandate for on-campus activities
Students are reacting to the university s announcement it could put a vaccination requirement in place.
Posted: Apr 27, 2021 1:23 PM
Updated: Apr 27, 2021 6:13 PM
Posted By: Kennedy Dendy
CORVALLIS, Ore. The conversation surrounding the requirement of a COVID-19 vaccination continues at colleges and universities.
Oregon State University leaders said in an email to families on Monday that a vaccination requirement could be a possibility in the future as they move to resume on-campus activities.
OSU spokesperson Steve Clark said that at the moment, vaccinations are not required upon return for the fall academic year. We anticipate, however, that over the next several months as the Food and Drug Administration provides licensing approval for vaccines we anticipate at that moment we will receive directions by the state of Oregon, the Oregon Health Authority, the governor s office to make vaccines a requirement
GWC-UAW Bargaining Committee to present contract for ratification vote
GWC-UAW Bargaining Committee to present contract for ratification vote Kathy Fang / Columbia Daily Spectator Monday afternoon’s “Rally for 3rd Party Arbitration” on Low Steps. The proposed contract does not include access to neutral, third-party arbitration. By Talia Abrahamson | April 19, 2021, 10:04 PM
The Bargaining Committee for the Graduate Workers of Columbia–United Auto Workers announced Monday that after over two years of bargaining with Columbia for the union’s first labor contract, it is ready to present the contract for a ratification vote.
If ratified, the contract will greatly expand the rights of student-workers; it has 31 articles, ranging from increased benefits and compensation to child care support, that will inject millions of dollars into resources for student-workers. It is now up to the bargaining unit to decide whether or not the contract goes far enough. Although it me
On March 15, Columbiaâs graduate student union began a three-week strike. Three days later, Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers met with University officials in their first bargaining session for a second contract. The following week, New York Universityâs graduate student union began voting to authorize a strike amid negotiations for its third contract â and on April 9, it voted 96.4 percent in favor.
Joe Bidenâs ascension to the White House has precipitated a flurry of activity by graduate student unions at private universities across the country, some of whom had avoided certain organizing efforts during the Trump administration amid fears that their cases would be used to shut down graduate studentsâ right to unionize altogether.
Published April 11, 2021
The Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees (GAGE) announced on March 25 an agreement with the university securing COVID-19 protections, approximately eight months after beginning negotiations for COVID-19 guarantees. GAGE sought third-party arbitration with the university last September after bargaining disputes continued to delay an agreement.
The union’s initial demands for COVID-19 protections included guaranteed remote work for all graduate workers, paid sick leave for employees with COVID-19, personal protective equipment for on-campus graduate workers, and legal rights for graduate employees under the administration’s Community Compact.
GAGE’s first union contract with the university was finalized on May 8, 2020, and allows for the union to bargain over issues not included in the original contract and seek third-party arbitration for disputes. In June of the same year, GAGE representatives began to negotiate with the univer
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