GSOC

  • Quick Explainer: What is a living wage in NYC?

    What we have now The current minimum rate for hourly grad workers is $20/hour. An employee working 20 hours a week—the most permitted at NYU—earns just $400 a week before taxes. What NYU is offering NYU’s current proposal would raise the minimum hourly rate by only $1 in the first year of the contract.…

  • IN RESPONSE TO NYU STATEMENTS BY SPOKESPERSON JOHN BECKMAN

    Graduate workers at NYU are among the university’s lowest-paid workers. After nine months of bargaining, NYU continues to offer only $1 increases on hourly pay and has offered insubstantial raises on total compensation for graduate workers who receive stipends. The university has refused to bargain at all on a wide range of key issues, from tuition…

  • Strike Vote Deadline Extended

    View this email in your browser Dear fellow member,  Forgot to vote? Or couldn’t find your ballot in time? To ensure maximum participation, the strike vote deadline has been extended to April 8 2021 11:45pm Eastern Time. If you are eligible to vote,* you should have received another ballot email TODAY (Monday, March 29) at 11:46…

  • Quick Explainer: We already have benefits. Why are we bargaining for more?

    “Our current contract gives us protections and benefits: we have 90% health care coverage, and a 20/hr wage. So why vote to authorize a potential strike and rock the boat?’” Let’s not forget that the benefits we have now are a direct result of the Strike Authorization Vote in 2015 and that we won…

  • Still thinking? Here’s Why Your Colleagues are Voting Yes

    Dear fellow member,  On Tuesday we kicked off the strike vote with an online and in-person rally at Gould Plaza. Thank you to the over one hundred members and supporters who showed up online and in-person to let NYU know that we’re not backing down in our fight for a fair contract! Read on below for…

  • NYU GRADUATE WORKERS ANNOUNCE STRIKE VOTE

    PDF version of this press release Vote Kicks Off at Rally 12pm Tuesday, March 23, 2021 For Immediate Release: March 19, 2021 GSOC Press Committee: gsoc.press@gmail.com GSOC calls vote to authorize a strike at NYU after 9 months of contract bargaining Vote to kick off with in-person and virtual rally  After GSOC delivered a…

  • NYU GRADUATE WORKERS ANNOUNCE STRIKE VOTE

    Vote Kicks Off at Rally 12pm Tuesday, March 23, 2021 New York, NY: ​The bargaining committee of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (​GSOC-UAW Local 2110​) has c​alled for a strike authorization vote​ after 9 months of negotiations with New York University. Starting March 23, union workers will vote to decide whether to empower the bargaining committee to…

  • 1200 union grad workers demand “NYU, stop stonewalling!”

    Petition of 1,200 graduate workers to be delivered at event Monday, March 1, 2021  NYU has been stalling bargaining for eight months Next bargaining session March 2, 2021; open for all graduate students to attend New York, NY: In a petition by the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW Local 2110), over 1,200 graduate workers at…

  • Bargaining Update – February 4th

    Since bargaining began, NYU has offered grad workers a $1 raise, or no more than $20 extra a week—which barely covers 2 meals in NYC! Last week, after NYU kept us waiting for 70 mins, our new bargaining committee presented a compensation counterproposal. We are fighting for funded grad workers to receive a minimum…

  • Bargaining Update – December 16th

    In today’s bargaining session, GSOC went over the impact bargaining proposals again, highlighting that these are still on the table and have still largely not been addressed by NYU, despite the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has been ongoing for about 9 months as of today. Among these proposals, a few were highlighted. First…

  • Bargaining Update – November 5th

    tl;dr: NYU brought no new counter proposals.  NYU asked a few clarifying questions about our proposals on vacation and bargaining unit lists, and reiterated their rejection to expand the grievance filing time limit from 15 days to 120 days. NYU maintained its rejection of our proposed  $40/hr living wage. We have made  movement on…

  • Bargaining update – October 13th, 2020

    TL;DR: Despite two meaningful gains won by GSOC on issues related to equity & inclusion and childcare, NYU continued to stonewall most of the union’s demands. GSOC emphasized demands related to significantly improving  benefits  for Master’sstudents and eliminating inequities between PhD and master’s workers. The latest bargaining session was another exercise in patience from…