Welcome to our page where we will be updating everyone on the progress of our bargaining, both for Impact bargaining as well as our next contract! Updates will be posted after every bargaining session.
If you have any questions or concerns, reach out to Sandy, Iraj, or Isaac
Dear member, Our new contract has now been ratified! GSOC members voted YES by a 99% majority to ratify the contract (1103 in favor, 11 against). We couldn’t have done this without all of you and a strong united strike. What does this mean for you? Review the agreement here. Our new contract will be retroactive from fall…
Dear Fellow Members: As we begin week 3 of our strike, it’s clear that the strike is working! Check out the bargaining update below for updates on major wins around our international and immigrant worker demands. These wins are significant, and they only happened because of YOU withholding your labor and making our disruption visible…
Our strike is making NYU move on a number of issues, but we need to keep fighting to win the contract we deserve! -NYU has finally countered on compensation, while still falling short of our demand for a living wage. NYU has raised its offer of $21/hour by only 50 CENTS, that is, an hourly rate…
Dear members, TL;DR: The strike is working!By applying pressure on the university, we have made significant wins on a number of demands regarding vacation and parental leave, although NYU continues to be intransigent on a range of important issues.Read below for moreIn order to receive strike benefits, you must come in person to register if you’re in NYC,…
SUBJECT: Bargaining Recap: NYU wanted mediation, but continued stonewalling. PREVIEW TEXT: Through 10 hours of mediation, we narrowed and refined our proposals. NYU had no response. TL;DR: A huge number of you turned out for our first session with a mediator. While NYU continued to stonewall, presenting nothing, we set out a full contract outline,…
Dear Fellow Member, Yesterday was the first day of our strike! We kicked off our virtual and in person picket line together with hundreds of grad workers and supporters who joined us in our fight for a fair contract. Our bargaining committee also met with NYU for the first bargaining session during the strike.Join us…
Dear Fellow Members, On Thursday, our bargaining committee (with ~100 observers!) met with NYU for a marathon 10-hour bargaining session. NYU made several new proposals, and we know that’s only because they’re scared of our strike. But their new proposals were not enough. While we made significant moves and presented a contract framework that would…
If you missed our previous quick explainers: living wage, health care, protection for international & immigrant workers, and Strike Vote #RealTalk. What happened in bargaining yesterday? After asking for 3-weeks to prepare, NYU came back with ONE counter-proposal. At the last bargaining session (March 18th), we made a number of counters, altering our proposals and setting out new frameworks for healthcare costs and…
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 income…
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 of…
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 many…
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 GSOC’s…
TL;DR: While both NYU and GSOC made some proposals and counterproposals, there continued to be significant disagreement between both parties about the scope of negotiations, leading NYU to suggest hiring a third-party negotiator. In the face of NYU’s claim that student health coverage is not a workplace issue, several rank and file GSOC members shared…
This week saw yet another fraught bargaining session with NYU, where even after a substantial number of counter proposals brought to the table by GSOC, NYU still maintained their rigid bargaining position, rejecting many, the majority even, of our proposals outright. The session this week was focused on the issue of Equity and Inclusion (E&I),…
TL; DR: NYU again failed to provide concrete responses to both our impact and regular bargaining proposals. GSOC engaged in our first bargaining session with NYU after the expiration date of our contract passed on August 31st. We extended the terms of our contract for 1 month while we continue bargaining, allowing grievance and potential…
TL;DR: NYU offered its first substantial proposals which completely ignored many of GSOC’s impact bargaining, and general bargaining demands and offered only modest gains to wages and benefits. This week, in our last bargaining session before our contract is set to expire, we received the first substantial counter proposals from NYU. NYU’s legal representative began…
TL;DR: The union expressed outrage at NYU’s recent demands for students to remain in the US in order to work in the fall and demanded a reversal of this position. We were met with more silence, rambling excuses, and slowing tactics by NYU’s legal team. This bargaining session focused on the issue of international and…
TL;DR: NYU continued to stall the bargaining process with a slow pace of response to our requests. We devoted this session to introducing a new impact bargaining demand about ventilation and presenting testimonials concerning our contract proposals for a living wage and for NYU to sever ties with the NYPD. In response, we received disappointing…
We returned to the bargaining table with NYU’s representatives for the third session of our impact bargaining, and the first session of bargaining for our new contract. Check out our previous post to be up-to-date on the status of impact bargaining prior to this session.Thank you to all the observers who came to the sessions!…
We met with representatives from NYU for a second session of impact bargaining on June 26th, 2020. As described in our previous blog post, this series of bargaining sessions is aimed at mitigating the effects of the many unexpected current events on our working conditions. Last time, we presented NYU with our demands, and as…
On June 11th, 2020, our bargaining committee had the first impact bargaining session with NYU. Impact bargaining is separate from bargaining for our next contract, which we are aiming to begin in July. Impact bargaining will primarily focus on our working conditions related to COVID-19, while regular bargaining will cover a wider range of demands. …
Welcome to our page where we will be updating everyone on the progress of our bargaining, both for Impact bargaining as well as our next contract! Updates will be posted after every bargaining session. If you have any questions or concerns, reach out to Sandy, Iraj, or Isaac
