The Walk of Shame is a way for GSOC to spatialize and share NYU’s multiple shortcomings as an employer and moral leader in higher education. In December 2015 we led a walking tour across several campus sites in protest of the university’s failure to live up to several contract promises. The project lives on as an Read More …
Graduate teaching and research assistants at New York University have voted overwhelmingly to unionize, the American Arbitration Association announced this week after conducting the vote. The graduate assistants voted 620 to 10 to affiliate with the United Automobile Workers, a move that will make their group the only graduate assistants’ union recognized by a private Read More …
For eight years, hundreds of graduate students at New York University have been at war with the school’s president, John Sexton, over his 2005 decision to stop recognizing the labor union that once represented more than 1,000 of the university’s graduate teaching and research assistants. But N.Y.U. and the union for those graduate assistants, an arm of Read More …
1,247 Can Vote for a Union, NYU Promises to Remain Neutral and Respect Majority New York, NY – UAW graduate employees have reached an unprecedented agreement with New York University in which the administration will remain neutral and respect the results of an election for more than 1,200 GAs, TAs, and RAs to vote on Union Read More …
At New York University (NYU), one of the wealthiest and most expensive schools in America, you’d think access to decent and affordable health care for employees and their dependents would be in reach. Yet teaching and research assistants at NYU are experiencing exorbitant costs for their health plans through the university. Last year the cost Read More …
