GSOC

  • NYU Renews its (Insufficient) Offer to GSOC/UAW

    NYU Renews its (Insufficient) Offer to GSOC/UAW

    The NYU administration has once again reached out with an offer to respect the right of teaching assistants (TAs) to choose GSOC/UAW as our Union, but only if we agree to exclude research assistants (RAs) and withdraw our pending petition at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). As you may remember, NYU made this offer…

  • Help Save Research Funding

    Help Save Research Funding

    Email your Congressional Representative now to help save federal research funding As sequestration cuts have eaten into federal research funding, we have good news about how we can join UAW RAs, TAs and Postdocs at other universities to fight back. Our UAW colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of California have taken the lead…

  • [#TBT 2000] history votes yes!

    Another GSOC-UAW #TBT dating back to the early days, circa 2000. NYU graduate employees at the time of their successful election that led to the first and only Union contract for RAs and TAs at a private university in the US. Over a decade later RAs and TAs at NYU continue to show majority support, with…

  • [WSN] Mayoral candidates send letter to Sexton, administration

    [WSN] Mayoral candidates send letter to Sexton, administration

    Mayoral candidates sent a letter on Friday, Sept. 6 to NYU President John Sexton urging him and the administration to recognize graduate, research and teaching assistants’ rights to unionize. Christine Quinn, Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu and Sal Albanese support the graduate workers ability to collectively bargain in their letter. Collective bargaining…

  • NYC mayoral candidates urge Sexton to respect our majority

    NYC mayoral candidates urge Sexton to respect our majority

    Five New York City mayoral candidates sent a letter to President Sexton today urging him to respect our majority choice for GSOC/UAW as GAs, RAs and TAs.  This letter adds to the growing public scrutiny of the current administration and builds on the open letter from more than 250 elected and community leaders back…

  • [#TBT 2000] All the Way Back to the Early days

    [#TBT 2000] All the Way Back to the Early days

    GSOC-UAW #TBT all the way back to the early days, circa 2000. Any GSOC-UAW alumni out there recognize yourselves? GSOC-UAW activists representing their departments, proudly displaying their support around the time of the successful NLRB election which led to the first and only Union contract for graduate employees at a private university in the US. Twelve…

  • NYU Respect Our Rights: GSOC-UAW 2012-13 Year-in-Review

    NYU Respect Our Rights: GSOC-UAW 2012-13 Year-in-Review

    With the 2013-2014 year just around the corner, we’d like to catch you up and reflect on what we accomplished through GSOC/UAW this past year, where we stand and what we plan to do in the year to come to win back collective bargaining at NYU. An eventful year moving NYU closer to respecting…

  • Important Update on Grad Healthcare for 2013-14

    Important Update on Grad Healthcare for 2013-14

    Hope the summer’s going well. As we’re all getting good work done in the classrooms, libraries, studios, labs, and offices across NYU, we wanted to give an important update on our healthcare campaign and next year’s benefits. The NYU central administration has once again imposed unilateral changes to our health plan, which will take…

  • Brown University Decision

    On July 15, 2004 the National Labor Relations Board issued a 3-2 decision reversing the legal precedent granting graduate student employees the right to form a union and declaring that, under federal law, graduate student assistants are not employees. This decision, which took the Board more than two and a half years to issue,…

  • GSOC/UAW Supports Workers in Bangladesh

    GSOC/UAW Supports Workers in Bangladesh

    GSOC/UAW members took part in an international day of action, to pressure United States’ retailers, Walmart and Gap, to sign onto the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. Unsafe factories in Bangladesh have killed more than 1,800 workers since 2005. Check out the website to sign the petition and learn more: http://gapdeathtraps.com/

  • Join GSOC/UAW in Support of Workers in Bangladesh June 29

    Join GSOC/UAW, other NYC unions and community groups mobilizing for Bangladeshi Workers // Mass Funeral Procession to SoHo Retailers WHEN: Saturday, June 29 at 1:00pm WHERE: Petrosino Square , near Spring St. & Lafayette St. in Manhattan. RSVP: Click here if you would like to join a contingent of other GSOC/UAW grads on the 29th The UAW is a sponsor of…

  • GSOC/UAW congratulates this year’s graduates at commencement

    GSOC/UAW congratulates this year’s graduates at commencement

    On Wednesday, May 22, GSOC/UAW supporters had a great time celebrating the All-University Commencement at Yankee Stadium. We talked with students and parents in the plaza outside the stadium, not only congratulating them , but also distributing flyers with the message that while “NYU is a great place to study, sadly at times it is not a great place…