GSOC Demands Healthcare Equality! Flyer with us. Spread the word. Organize in your department. Join us in our struggle for better healthcare coverage for all graduate student workers! GSOC’s healthcare campaign will also be meeting on the first Thursday of every month and at the Assembly of Stewards meeting. We take it seriously when…
When we heard that NYU was going to make it extremely hard for members (especially international students) to hold the paid unit rep positions in the union, we brought our concerns & our people directly to HR. We look forward to NYU negotiating in better faith with us moving forward, and retracting the imposition of restrictions…
Ratified October 18th 2016
As GSOC noted previously, there’s evidence that NYU is wrongly deducting many thousands of dollars in FICA taxes from grad student pay. Since then, two NYU grad students and GSOC members (Anne & Noah) have been doggedly researching this issue and what to do about it. This is clearly a collective problem which requires a collective response. To this…
Ratified June 21 2016
At the May 2016 Assembly of Stewards, GSOC ratified this resolution to join Trade Unions for Energy Democracy, with steward Anne Pasek serving as a TUED liaison.
UPDATE: We’ve launched a self-reporting form about this issue. If you are affected, please share your information so that we can advocate for a collective response from the university (or pursue one ourselves): Click Here to report your wrongly deducted FICA taxes. Previously we noted wide-spread problems with international student 2014 tax withholding. Now we’ve…