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  • [IHE] Teaching Assistants at NYU-Polytechnic Seek Union

    [IHE] Teaching Assistants at NYU-Polytechnic Seek Union

    Teaching Assistants at NYU-Polytechnic Seek Union Graduate teaching and research assistants at Polytechnic Institute of New York University on Thursday filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board seeking union representation. The petition would create a distinct bargaining unit for the approximately 600 assistants who work at the institute, which merged with NYU…

  • [Chronicle] Scientific and Technical Workers at NYU-Poly Move to Unionize

    [Chronicle] Scientific and Technical Workers at NYU-Poly Move to Unionize

    Scientific and Technical Workers at NYU-Poly Move to Unionize A majority of teaching, research, and graduate assistants at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board to let them form a union, according to the United Auto Workers, which is organizing them. A statement issued by the UAW…

  • We’re All Badgers!

    Our fundamental right to have a union is under attack from Wisconsin to Maine.  The right-wing billionaire Koch brothers are funding a coordinated effort to destroy collective bargaining in states across the country.  Many of you have been reading about the massive demonstrations by public school teachers, university workers, teaching assistants, firefighters and others in Wisconsin…

  • Welcome Back!

    We have an update on the progress of the hearings at the National Labor Relations Board.  As we all know, the road to meaningful historical change is long and hard, and thanks to the NYU Administration’s deep pockets for anti-union litigation, our battle for recognition-something we take to be a basic human right-continues to be…

  • GSOC/UAW NLRB Hearing Update

    We’ve now had a total of three days of hearing at the NLRB. We have been presenting our case and putting evidence on the record, which is intended to demonstrate that graduate students employed as researchers, grad assistants, and teachers are employees and that we have the right to a union of our own…

  • NLRB Hearings Begin!

    In light of the recent National Labor Relations Board decision, the NLRB will begin to hear our case tomorrow, Thursday, November 18th. Once again, we are setting out to make history, this time by overturning the Brown decision and winning back collective bargaining rights for graduate employees working at NYU and all private universities in the…

  • [TCOHE] Labor Board Gives NYU Graduate Students Another Shot at Union Vote

    [TCOHE] Labor Board Gives NYU Graduate Students Another Shot at Union Vote

    The National Labor Relations Board this week reversed a regional director’s decision that had stymied efforts by graduate teaching and research assistants at New York University to vote on union representation. Monday’s 2-to-1 decision does not give the graduate assistants the green light to engage in collective bargaining, but it does say that they deserve a…

  • [IHE] NLRB Steps Toward Grad Unions

    [IHE] NLRB Steps Toward Grad Unions

    The National Labor Relations Board, in a 2-to-1 decision, has edged away from its recent history of rejecting unionization rights for graduate teaching assistants at private universities. In the decision, the NLRB found that the graduate students at New York University who are currently trying to unionize with the United Auto Workers deserve a full hearing…

  • GSOC/UAW Membership Update

    We have great news! Citing “compelling reasons” to reconsider the 2004 Brown decision, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in our favor and has opened up our case for a hearing! This is big news for two reasons. First, if the Board decides in our favor after the hearings, they will order an election and graduate…

  • One Nation March for Social and Economic Justice

    One Nation March for Jobs, Justice and Peace / Saturday, October 2nd / Washington, D.C. On Saturday, October 2nd, hundreds of thousands of working people, union members, students, retirees, and civil rights and community activists will converge on Washington D.C. to peacefully rally for Jobs and a Just Economy. Our Union, along with the…

  • GSOC Rally TOMORROW, 9/16 from 11:45-12:30pm

    RALLY FOR OUR RIGHTS: JOIN US! TOMORROW, Thursday, 9/16 from 11:45-12:30pm in front of Bobst Library Please join us and grad union members from Yale, Stonybrook and elsewhere, as we call on the NYU administration to respect our democratic majority and our rights!  Representatives of the UAW and members of the adjunct union, ACT-UAW…

  • Welcome Back and Update from GSOC/UAW

    Welcome back!  We hope that you had a relaxing and productive summer and are ready for what is sure to be an eventful fall semester. We are writing to update you on our ongoing efforts to establish our union and secure collective bargaining rights for all TAs, RAs and GAs at NYU.  We would…