Congratulations and thank you to everyone who helped to make our one-week strike a success. Through our collective action we sent a strong message to Columbia's administration: we are committed to a union and a fair contract for teaching and research assistants. As Provost Alan Brinkley stated in the Columbia Spectator, our strike "did have a significant impact." Hundreds of us withheld our labor in protest, marched in rallies and on picket lines, and many professors moved their classes off-campus in solidarity with our strike. Together with GESO, Yale's union of graduate assistants and GSOC/UAW Local 2110, NYU's union of graduate assistants, and with the support of our international union, the UAW, we have focused national attention on Columbia's unjust denial of union recognition to its own graduate employees.