GSOC

  • May 10th – Bargaining Update

    Dear Fellow Members: As we begin week 3 of our strike, it’s clear that the strike is working! Check out the bargaining update below for updates on major wins around our international and immigrant worker demands. These wins are significant, and they only happened because of YOU withholding your labor and making our disruption…

  • NYU Teacher Residency Supports the Strike

    This resolution was adopted by consensus. Thank you, Diana Turk, Director of Teacher EducationThe faculty of the NYU Teacher Residency believes that graduate students should be free to act on their own convictions about the union issues before them. Whatever our individual views of this important matter, we are intent upon continuing to foster…

  • The Long Island University Faculty Federation Supports the Strike

    The Long Island University Faculty Federation sends our support to the members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee | United Auto Workers at New York University. We affirm your strike for a living wage, expanded healthcare, childcare, support for international students, and better protections against all forms of harassment. Ensuring just wages and working…

  • Autoworker Caravan Supports the Strike

    Autoworker Caravan stands in solidarity with our UAW siblings at NYU who are on strike for livable wages and fair working conditions.  It is inconceivable for the administration to keep the workers, who make NYU such a great university, in poverty level conditions.  Graduate workers have become the lifeblood of the school.  NYU cannot…

  • MLK Scholars Endorse the Strike

    As scholars in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholars Program, we are writing and signing this letter in support of the ongoing graduate student workers strike and their efforts to secure just working conditions. This letter was neither endorsed nor rejected by the current administrative team in charge of the program and/or administration at…

  • Institute for Public Knowledge

    POSTPONED The Future of Democracy: What Americans Want from Reform Thank you for your interest in tonight’s Future of Democracy event at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, “What Americans Want from Reform,” with Dr. Paul C. Light. We must inform you that we are postponing this event to stand in solidarity with NYU graduate…

  • Bargaining Update-May 5th

    Our strike is making NYU move on a number of issues, but we need to keep fighting to win the contract we deserve!  -NYU has finally countered on compensation, while still falling short of our demand for a living wage. NYU has raised its offer of $21/hour by only 50 CENTS, that is, an…

  • Statement of Support for NYU Graduate Student Workers by Liberal Studies Faculty

    We, the undersigned faculty of Liberal Studies, believe that graduate students should be free to act on their own convictions about any union contract negotiations before them. We recognize that graduate students, like other workers, have the right to strike, a right they have exercised. We intend to continue to foster an atmosphere of…

  • Bargaining Update & Strike Fund Registration

    Dear members,  TL;DR: The strike is working! By applying pressure on the university, we have made significant wins on a number of demands regarding vacation and parental leave, although NYU continues to be intransigent on a range of important issues.Read below for more In order to receive strike benefits, you must come in person to register…

  • IMPORTANT: GSOC UAW STRIKE FUND: REGISTER IN-PERSON/ZOOM STARTING TOMORROW

    Dear Members, We just received more information from the UAW (our parent union) about our strike benefits that slightly alters the mechanism for receiving the strike benefits. We were expecting the registration to be entirely online, however the UAW staff has informed us that officials from the UAW’s Strike Department will be registering workers…

  • Bargaining Update- April 29th

    SUBJECT: Bargaining Recap: NYU wanted mediation, but continued stonewalling. PREVIEW TEXT: Through 10 hours of mediation, we narrowed and refined our proposals. NYU had no response. TL;DR: A huge number of you turned out for our first session with a mediator. While NYU continued to stonewall, presenting nothing, we set out a full contract…

  • The Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies & The Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies issues statement of solidarity

    The MEIS faculty stand in solidarity with graduate students and endorse their collective bargaining right. We urge the NYU administration to negotiate a new contract with GSOC that will address the graduate students’ demands and concerns in good faith. MEIS faculty will continue to support its students and not report any students participating in…