Graduate workers overwhelmingly vote to ratify union contract with Penn

The agreement comes after more than a year of negotiations between the University and the union, which represents more than 3,700 graduate workers with teaching and research positions at Penn.

Since October 2024, the University and Graduate Employees Together — University of Pennsylvania have met 45 times, bargaining on provisions over compensation, international student security, and workplace protections.

The Monday brief came almost a week after Penn asserted that the EEOC’s subpoena requesting information about Jewish students and faculty should not be enforced. 

The brief comes amid an ongoing federal investigation into alleged workplace antisemitism at Penn.

The program, which offers four to six different seminars each semester, allows students to dissect a major literary text and is required for undergraduates pursuing an English major. 

The speakers discussed their consultations on war-related cases, an initiative that began with virtual coaching and has continued through Penn Med’s weekly contact with Ukrainian surgical teams.

Penn Medicine OnDemand directs patients to its own providers instead of their usual doctor, and has recently expanded to increasingly handle overnight patient calls across the primary care network.

The Quakers sit in the middle of the Ivy League pack but have shown signs of prowess and growth.

Penn dominates the Squash courts at Princeton to compete in two championships bringing one back to Penn. 

The Quakers scored 195.800 points to take the title.