MEDIA

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…

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…

[ylwm_vimeo height=”230″ width=”410″]79914598[/ylwm_vimeo] 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.…

New York University is willing to let some graduate students vote on whether to form a union, marking a possible return to the collective-bargaining rights they once held. It’s a pitch the university made months ago and reiterated to union organizers on Friday. In a letter to a United Auto Workers official, Terrance Nolan,…

New York University on Friday offered the union seeking to organize graduate students something it has long sought: The university said it would stop legal proceedings seeking to block an election on a union for teaching assistants, and that it would respect the results of the election and negotiate a contract, should graduate students…

Mayoral candidates sent a letter on Friday, Sept. 6 to NYU President John Sexton urging him and the administration to recognize graduate, research and teaching assistants’ rights to unionize. Christine Quinn, Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu and Sal Albanese support the graduate workers ability to collectively bargain in their letter. Collective bargaining…

Members of NYU’s Graduate Student Organizing Committee flexed their political muscle last Thursday when their rally for unionization was headlined by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and supported by over 250 other state elected officials. The GSOC—NYU’s currently unrecognized labor union for Teaching and Research Assistants—has campaigned for collective bargaining rights since 2004, when…

Published as an op-ed in the Washington Square News on March 28, 2013 as “Cuts to NYU graduate employee benefits hurt gender inclusivity in academic workplace”. Here is the original text of the op-ed written by Ashley Bate and Kaitlin Noss. This Women’s History Month there is a curious silence about how NYU’s recent cuts…

More than 1,100 graduate student employees at New York University (NYU) and NYU-Poly have signed and delivered a letter to the university’s administration urging the school to respect their choice to join a union. The letter was delivered in anticipation of a decision by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that could reverse a 2004 decision…

WASHINGTON — Are graduate students who work as teaching assistants and research assistants at private universities entitled to collective bargaining? The answer depends on whether these graduate student employees should be seen primarily as students or employees. If the former, the National Labor Relations Board would have a tough time saying that they have…