GSOC

  • FAR-4: How the Proposed MacCracken Restructuring Will Affect You and NYU

    GSOC Official Statement on FAR-4 Please read below for more information on the NYU administration’s FAR-4 — Financial Aid Restructuring 4 — proposal to restructure graduate employee funding and work arrangements at NYU.  The proposal would remove the teaching requirement from MacCracken fellowships.  The NYU administration claims that all graduate employees engaged in teaching…

  • [IHE] An Invitation to Unionize

    [IHE] An Invitation to Unionize

    NEW YORK — The chair of the National Labor Relations Board gave a strong indication here Monday that, now that the board has new members appointed by President Obama, unions could expect it to back collective bargaining rights for graduate teaching assistants at private universities. Her remarks came as graduate students at the University…

  • [NYULOCAL] A Member of GSOC Explains Why NYU Graduate Students Are Protesting Inside Bobst

    [NYULOCAL] A Member of GSOC Explains Why NYU Graduate Students Are Protesting Inside Bobst

    Today from 1pm to 2pm about 60 graduate employees held a “work-in” inside Bobst Sydney aka hard eight download. You may have seen us with our blue t-shirts and signs hung around our neck. We tried to remain silent as we were grading exams and papers. Our action drew attention to the labor that we do everyday…

  • [NYULOCAL] Breaking: Graduate Students Protest In Bobst

    [NYULOCAL] Breaking: Graduate Students Protest In Bobst

    1:50pm – The graduate students union here at NYU, GSOC, is currently protesting in the lobby of Bobst with placards and flyers. 1:55pm – They were oringinally sitting along the benchs in the main lobby and flyering near the main doors, but now seem to be leaving the building. 1:59pm – Gathered at the…

  • [IHE] Return of Grad Union Movement

    [IHE] Return of Grad Union Movement

    Unions worked hard for President Obama in November — and those in academic unions have had high hopes that his actions would revive the movement to organize graduate teaching assistants at private universities. In his first move related to the National Labor Relations Board, Obama has cheered those unions by designating as chair Wilma B.…