MEDIA

New York University is once again center stage in the legal and policy debate over whether graduate teaching assistants at private universities can form unions. On Tuesday, the United Auto Workers announced that it was formally asking the university to recognize a union of graduate research and teaching assistants, and that — if the…

Graduate students who assist professors with teaching and research may not seem like typical workers, but more than 1,000 such assistants petitioned New York University on Monday to recognize a union that would represent their interests. The school’s officials signaled they would not recognize such a union, which would be the only union of teaching assistants…

New York University has been the site of a historic breakthrough for the push to unionize graduate teaching assistants — and a bitter strike to preserve the union, which ended in failure, without collective bargaining. NYU administrators are now floating an idea that would give graduate students the right to join the university’s adjunct union. The…

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…

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…

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…

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.…