UE NEWS Updates

UE Local 300-Cornell Graduate Students United members Marguerite Pacheco and Ewa Nizalowska describe their local’s successful first contract campaign in this article for the UE NEWS.

Locals 203 and 267 have both made significant strides towards keeping their members safe from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Local 203, which represents grocery workers at City Market, came to a verbal understanding with their employer earlier this year that no employee information would be given to ICE. They were also guaranteed by their employer that ICE would not be allowed to enter private areas of the workplace and would not be permitted entrance without a warrant.

From April 25 to May 10, five members of UE Local 150 traveled to Cuba as part of the International May Day Brigade. The brigade, organized by the National Network on Cuba, consisted of approximately 100 people from across the U.S.

On April 11, UE Local 197-Teachers and Researchers United signed an agreement with Johns Hopkins University to guarantee sixth-year funding to the next two cohorts of graduate workers in the Humanities and Social Sciences. This represents a significant win for Local 197 in our ongoing struggle to ensure that all JHU graduate workers have the funding to complete their degrees.