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  • Tell the NLRB: Do the right thing now!

    Tell the NLRB: Do the right thing now!

    3 simple things you can do on Friday 3/16/12 between 12-2 PM to strongly encourage the NLRB to make a decision on our case and restore our democratic right to vote to join a union: Go to the NLRB Facebook Page and write in the comment section of the top post this statement: NYU Grad Students have waited long enough…

  • Update on Trip to DC

    GSOC-UAW started out the semester with quite a bang! This past Friday we took a bus full of GSOC activists to Washington D.C, to urge the NLRB to rule on our case and allow us our democratic right to vote for our union. After delivering a letter to the Board, we held a press conference out…

  • [TCOHE] NYU Graduate Students Urge Labor-Relations Board to Act on Union Representation

    [TCOHE] NYU Graduate Students Urge Labor-Relations Board to Act on Union Representation

    A delegation of 50 graduate-student workers from New York University traveled by bus to Washington today to deliver a letter to the National Labor Relations Board that asks for a quick decision on their nearly two-year-old petition for an election to vote on union representation. In June a National Labor Relations Board official declared that NYU…

  • REMINDER: Dec 1st Rally and OWS Video

    WORKERS AND STUDENTS UNITED Did you know that one in ten students graduate with $40,000 or more in debt, or that nearly six million 25 to 34 year olds are moving back in with their parents? Did you hear that 14.3% of recent college graduates do not have a job and that today it…

  • IMPORTANT: NLRB Petition and Dec. 1st Rally

    PETITION IN SUPPORT OF GRADUATE EMPLOYEE ORGANIZING An online petition has created by graduate students at the University of Chicago requesting the NLRB consider our appeal and reestablish our right to organize and bargain a union contract as graduate employees. Please add your name to the voices of graduate students around the country. The petition can be found at http://gradlaborcounts.org/. WORKERS AND…

  • GSOC-UAW Update and N17 Call to Action!

    NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION — November 17th, 2011 at 1:30pm Click Here to confirm on our Facebook event page! WHERE: 44 West 4th Street (Gould Plaza) at 1:30pm Join the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW), NYU4OWS, U-CATS, undergraduates and other campus Unions on the 17th at 1:30 pm at 44 west 4th street (Gould Plaza). We…

  • Occupy Wall Street with the UAW This Saturday!

    10:45 AM: Zuccotti Park in Manhattan (at North West Corner Broadway & Liberty Street) 12:00 PM: Student Convergence 12:00PM Washington Square General Assembly 5:00 PM Times Square Convergence Occupy Wall Street to Target Chase Bank! The Occupy Wall Street Labor Outreach Committee is organizing a march from Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park) to a nearby Chase…

  • Teach-In: Why Should Students Join Occupy Wall Street?

    TEACH-IN: WHY SHOULD STUDENTS JOIN OCCUPY WALL ST? WHERE: NYU Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street, Room 216 WHEN: Wednesday, October 12th · 5:00pm  –  7:00pm A new group of NYU students and workers has formed in solidarity with Occupy Wall St. They have scheduled a Teach-In: Why Should Students Join Occupy Wall Street? In the teach-in they…

  • LOCATION UPDATE/UAW Endorses Occupy Wall St!

    UAW Endorses Occupy Wall Street; Massive March Planned Today  This morning the UAW — the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America — issued an official endorsement of Occupy Wall Street, which they deem “a movement for economic and political justice.” (Read More) Community/Labor March to Occupy Wall St! Let’s Keep the…

  • [NYTIMES] N.Y.U. Teaching Assistants’ Unionization Hopes Get a Boost

    [NYTIMES] N.Y.U. Teaching Assistants’ Unionization Hopes Get a Boost

    James Estrin/The New York TimesGraduate student teaching assistants at New York University striking in 2005. Many graduate teaching assistants at New York University and a dozen other private universities are spoiling to unionize, but they have been frustrated by a 2004 ruling from the National Labor Relations Board saying they cannot unionize because they are students, not employees. Now, the…

  • GSOC-UAW Action Update

    As the academic year comes to a close, we, the NYU graduate employees, continue to organize to reaffirm our majority support for Our Union, GSOC/UAW!  Even as the university administration continues its attempt to deny us our right to unionize, we continue to make significant progress toward winning union recognition and being able to collectively…

  • [Sing Tao Daily] 紐大理工高研生籌組工會 為亞裔維權

    [Sing Tao Daily] 紐大理工高研生籌組工會 為亞裔維權

    紐大理工高研生籌組工會 為亞裔維權 本報記者王鏑紐約報道：紐約大學理工學院（NYU-Poly）的科學家與工程師等工讀人員于5月5日向美國勞工關係委員（NLRB）遞表申請成立工會，據瞭解，600成員約75%都是亞裔，而且一大部份是持簽證在美工作或等待綠卡的國際人員。近年全國各個工會積極參與移民改革，但是工會人員指現階段他們只希望專注工人權益，不過他們的權益的確又與移民身分息息相關。 紐大理工學院是全美歷史第二悠久的私立理工學院，現在有600位碩士及博士生受聘于校內的教學、研究、助教等職位。來自四川的化工博士生胡楊說，由於華裔及印度裔學生專攻理工科目，因此亞裔組成便佔了大約75%。 印度裔生化博士生Manoj Ganesh稱，「成立工會除了保障工資、健保及職位穩定，還特別是要保障實驗室的安全，因為我們經常面對危險化學品。」事實上，紐約大學（NYU）本身的工讀研究生工會UAW2110于2002年與校方討論集體談判權，但後被美國勞工關係委員會推翻，紐大也拒絕談判，2010年勞工關係委員會重開此案，UAW9A區的總監Julie Kushner則敦促說，「紐約大學不應該聘請了僱員、給他們工作、付他們薪水、然後說根據法律他們不是能享有全盤權益的僱員。」 被問到目前工作最沒有保障的是甚麼？胡楊舉例說，「我們的工作都是依靠研究經費，一旦老闆經費結束我們就立刻會被辭退，而且更大的問題是必須立刻離開美國，沒有辦法重新找一個工作，職位不穩定。」亦即說，這些高學歷人員的工作權益與身分息息相關。 事實上，即使政府經常宣傳非法移民也享有工人權益，但是非法移民被炒魷魚還會繼續留在美國，只是高學歷合法移民就不可能這樣做，待遇甚至比非法移民還差。 胡楊坦言，美國對中國、印度技術移民設下配額，兩國專才申請十年才能拿到綠卡的人比比皆是，目前中印兩國發展勢頭強勁，此消彼長情況下越來越多人選擇「海歸」。 即使總統奧巴馬多次強調要吸收高學歷人員留美，彭博市長更指每一個大學畢業生應該隨證書附上一張綠卡，但是就連亞裔移民團體與亞裔政客都對這些人視而不見，讓他們成為亞裔移民社區的「棄兒」。胡楊直稱高學歷亞洲人在美國「很尷尬」。 就例如早前的「夢想法案」，建議把16歲以下來美、讀兩年大學的非法移民合法化，但是不少人就質疑為什麼合法來美國念碩士、博士並一直付稅的人不應該比「夢想法案」的人更優先拿到綠卡？「夢想法案」年初在國會被挫，胡楊說，「很多在等待綠卡的合法移民其實還是高興的」。目前「夢想法案」捲土重來，社區人士認為「夢想法案」必須擴大把這些人納入在內，也有些人在想像，引進更多高學歷移民還是非法移民將如何影響10年、20年後亞裔社區的組成與面貌，從西岸到東岸，亞裔政客又會有甚麼取態。 Original publication can be found here.