GSOC

  • GSOC/UAW Has Filed for Legal Recognition!

    GREAT NEWS: GSOC/UAW Has Filed for Legal Recognition!!! Because the NYU administration refused to respect our majority and respond to our request for voluntary recognition, GSOC/UAW members began the legal process of reestablishing collective bargaining rights for NYU graduate employees.  GSOC/UAW members joined representatives from the UAW – including Julie Kushner, Assistant Director of Region…

  • [HUFFINGTONPOST] NYU Graduate Employees File for Union Recognition, Hope to Overturn Bush Era Ruling

    [HUFFINGTONPOST] NYU Graduate Employees File for Union Recognition, Hope to Overturn Bush Era Ruling

    This morning, for the first time in 10 years,graduate employees at New York University returned to the offices of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to file a petition for recognition of their union and a formal union election. From hand to hand, organizers passed a hefty box full of cards signed by a clear majority of…

  • [TCOHE] NYU Graduate Students Petition Labor Board for Union Vote

    [TCOHE] NYU Graduate Students Petition Labor Board for Union Vote

    Graduate students at New York University filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday, asking for a union-representation election. The move, which ultimately seeks to gain collective-bargaining rights for about 1,800 teaching and research assistants, comes a week after student organizers gave university administrators a deadline for voluntarily recognizing their union, affiliated with…

  • [GOTHAMIST] NYU Grad Students Want Their Union To Be Recognized

    [GOTHAMIST] NYU Grad Students Want Their Union To Be Recognized

    NYU’s graduate students who work as teaching assistants are attempting to bring back their union. The Graduate Student Organizing Committee/UAW Local 2110, along with Rep. Jerrold Nadler and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, presented NYU officials with a American Arbitration Association certificate indicating that majority of NYU’s graduate students want to be in a…

  • [IHE] Showdown on Grad Unions

    [IHE] Showdown on Grad Unions

    New York University is once again center stage in the legal and policy debate over whether graduate teaching assistants at private universities can form unions. On Tuesday, the United Auto Workers announced that it was formally asking the university to recognize a union of graduate research and teaching assistants, and that — if the…

  • UPDATE: GSOC Has Majority, Requests Recognition

    We are pleased to announce that the highly respected American Arbitration Association (AAA) has verified that a clear majority of NYU graduate employees have chosen to be represented by GSOC/UAW Local 2110 in collective bargaining with the NYU administration. Yesterday afternoon, a delegation formally presented the NYU administration with the official AAA certificate confirming our majority. …

  • [NYTIMES] Graduate Students Ask N.Y.U. to Recognize Union

    [NYTIMES] Graduate Students Ask N.Y.U. to Recognize Union

    Graduate students who assist professors with teaching and research may not seem like typical workers, but more than 1,000 such assistants petitioned New York University on Monday to recognize a union that would represent their interests. The school’s officials signaled they would not recognize such a union, which would be the only union of teaching assistants…

  • BIG NEWS from GSOC/UAW

    The moment we have been waiting for has arrived! A few weeks ago, President Obama made a set of recess appointments that included two new members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Now that the NLRB is constituted, we are preparing to move forward and regain collective bargaining rights for graduate employees at…

  • Welcome Back! GSOC Update and Info on Grad Employment Restructuring

    Welcome back! We hope everyone had a safe and productive summer and look forward to seeing you this year. It’s going to be a big year for our union!  Please read on to learn more about our campaign and for updates about NYU’s restructuring of graduate employment.   Update on Graduate Employment Restructuring As…

  • Why FAR 4 Fails Graduate Employees

    On Friday, June 19, the NYU administration formally announced its intention to implement FAR 4 (Financial Aid Restructuring 4) in September 2009. Developed behind closed doors by an undisclosed group of NYU administrators, FAR 4 is a poorly conceived and hastily implemented attempt at union-busting that GSOC/UAW Local 2110 finds unconscionable, both in the…

  • CALL TO ACTION: GSOC Update & Response to New FAR-4 Interim Report

    At noon on Monday, April 20, GSOC/UAW Local 2110 held a one-hour silent work-in in Bobst Library.  While quietly studying and working in the lobby of Bobst, approximately 80-90 GSOC members wore signs questioning the details of the FAR-4 proposal.  At 1pm, the union marched across Washington Square Park and delivered letters to Deans…

  • [IHE] New Idea on Grad Students, Unions

    [IHE] New Idea on Grad Students, Unions

    New York University has been the site of a historic breakthrough for the push to unionize graduate teaching assistants — and a bitter strike to preserve the union, which ended in failure, without collective bargaining. NYU administrators are now floating an idea that would give graduate students the right to join the university’s adjunct union. The…