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  • [NYTimes] N.Y.U. Graduate Assistants to Join Auto Workers’ Union

    [NYTimes] N.Y.U. Graduate Assistants to Join Auto Workers’ Union

    Graduate teaching and research assistants at New York University have voted overwhelmingly to unionize, the American Arbitration Association announced this week after conducting the vote. The graduate assistants voted 620 to 10 to affiliate with the United Automobile Workers, a move that will make their group the only graduate assistants’ union recognized by a…

  • [NYTimes] With New Agreement, N.Y.U. Would Again Recognize Graduate Assistants’ Union

    [NYTimes] With New Agreement, N.Y.U. Would Again Recognize Graduate Assistants’ Union

    For eight years, hundreds of graduate students at New York University have been at war with the school’s president, John Sexton, over his 2005 decision to stop recognizing the labor union that once represented more than 1,000 of the university’s graduate teaching and research assistants. But N.Y.U. and the union for those graduate assistants, an arm…

  • This is huge: Union election set for December 10 &11!

    This is huge: Union election set for December 10 &11!

    After an 8-year struggle, we have reached an unprecedented agreement with NYU’s Administration to vote on December 10th and 11th to win back our Union! Today, GSOC/UAW and SET/UAW signed an agreement that puts us in position to start bargaining very soon and work toward having a new contract by the end of the academic year. Voting “Yes” will…

  • UAW Graduate Employees Reach Historic Agreement with NYU after Eight-Year Struggle

    UAW Graduate Employees Reach Historic Agreement with NYU after Eight-Year Struggle

    1,247 Can Vote for a Union, NYU Promises to Remain Neutral and Respect Majority New York, NY – UAW graduate employees have reached an unprecedented agreement with New York University in which the administration will remain neutral and respect the results of an election for more than 1,200 GAs, TAs, and RAs to vote on…

  • [AFLCIO] Why NYU Graduate Student Workers Are Fighting for a Voice on the Job

    [AFLCIO] Why NYU Graduate Student Workers Are Fighting for a Voice on the Job

    [ylwm_vimeo height=”230″ width=”410″]79914598[/ylwm_vimeo] At New York University (NYU), one of the wealthiest and most expensive schools in America, you’d think access to decent and affordable health care for employees and their dependents would be in reach. Yet teaching and research assistants at NYU are experiencing exorbitant costs for their health plans through the university.…

  • [#TBT 2002] NYU Teaching Assistants Win Major Gains in First-Ever Contract at Private University

    [#TBT 2002] NYU Teaching Assistants Win Major Gains in First-Ever Contract at Private University

    Today’s TBT is an original version of the 2002 GSOC/UAW press release on our historic first contract, which included a 38% increase to the stipend minimum and paid healthcare coverage for the first time. At the time, NYU praised the agreement as well, saying it recognized “the importance of graduate students to our community”…

  • UAW Grad Employee Union Led Successful Campaign to Stop Discriminatory International Student ‘Fee’ at UMASS

    UAW Grad Employee Union Led Successful Campaign to Stop Discriminatory International Student ‘Fee’ at UMASS

    In December 2003 the University of Massachusetts at Amherst began imposing a $65/semester ‘International Student Fee’ on international students. The fee was introduced to generate revenue for the university’s International Programs Office (IPO), to administer the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), a federally mandated program that tracks personal information about international students,…

  • Visa and Immigration Issues Seminar Held at NYU

    Visa and Immigration Issues Seminar Held at NYU

    Last Friday GSOC/UAW and CSSA (the Chinese Students and Scholars Association) sponsored a seminar on visa and immigration issues. For many graduate employees who want to continue to work in the United States after graduation, acquiring the proper visa can be confusing and daunting. Attendees learned more about their options and about their status…

  • International Student Visa Seminar November 8

    International Student Visa Seminar November 8

    We will be sponsoring a seminar on visa and immigration issues on Friday, November 8, 12-130pm, in Waverly 366. If you have questions about options for continuing to work in the United States after graduation or other questions about your status as an international graduate employee, this will be a great opportunity to learn. We will also…

  • GSOC/UAW Informational Session Held

    Thanks to all the grad employees who made for a lively discussion at last night’s GSOC/UAW informational session! Expanding women’s access to the academic workforce by negotiating for improved family-friendly policies, a stronger voice on and off campus for international grad employees, and more stability in health insurance costs so we can focus on…

  • [TCOHE] NYU Again Tells Union It’s Willing to Bargain—but Not With Everyone

    [TCOHE] NYU Again Tells Union It’s Willing to Bargain—but Not With Everyone

    New York University is willing to let some graduate students vote on whether to form a union, marking a possible return to the collective-bargaining rights they once held. It’s a pitch the university made months ago and reiterated to union organizers on Friday. In a letter to a United Auto Workers official, Terrance Nolan,…

  • [IHE] Shift on Grad Unions

    [IHE] Shift on Grad Unions

    New York University on Friday offered the union seeking to organize graduate students something it has long sought: The university said it would stop legal proceedings seeking to block an election on a union for teaching assistants, and that it would respect the results of the election and negotiate a contract, should graduate students…