GSOC-UAW

NYU: Stop Botching Our Health Benefits Despite our significant contributions to NYU’s teaching and research missions, many of us have struggled to make ends meet this summer with less than we expected. Why? The NYU administration recently took back its commitment to distribute substantial amounts of money to graduate student employees for health insurance…

Thanks to everyone who came to the GSOC open membership meetings at NYU and NYU-Poly this week to discuss the status of bargaining and concerns members had about the process. We had a lively discussion. Although there were differences of opinion on specific aspects of bargaining, there was general agreement on moving forward with greater frequency of…

At the end of the spring semester, NYU emailed many students, including graduate employees, promising rebates in varying amounts for health care premiums paid for academic year 2012-2013. However, many students who have now gotten checks received far less than what they were originally promised from the university. The rebates themselves are a result…

The Spring 2014 semester has ended without a fair contract offer from the NYU Administration. While there was significant progress in negotiations on important non-economic rights, the University’s initial and only economic counter-proposal is far short of anything that our Bargaining Committee can recommend. NYU’s offer, made at the end of the semester, is…

After months of bargaining and intensive organizing around our demand for a fair contract, the Administration has finally made an economic proposal.  Characterizing the offer as “a framework for settlement,” the Administration proposed: A six year agreement that would expire 8/30/20. Teaching pay would be based on whatever Local 7902, the adjunct union, bargained in…

GRADUATE EMPLOYEES FROM 20+ DEPARTMENTS DEMAND FAIR CONTRACT AT UNION BARGAINING SESSION On Friday, May 2nd, a delegation of graduate employees from over 20 departments from across NYU came to our bargaining session to deliver the over 1,000 signatures on our Open Letter for a Fair Contract Now to the Administration bargaining committee. Before formally…

Thursday, April 10Important Union Meeting for all Supporters–Report on Bargaining, Q&A, Brainstorm3-5pm, NYU-Poly, Regna Lounge6-8pm, Washington Square, Graduate Lounge, Silver Center On Thursday, April 10 we will hold an extremely important union meeting to report on and discuss where we are in bargaining. There will be a session at each campus: 3-5 pm, Regna Lounge,…

After three bargaining sessions with the University, there has been significant progress in negotiating non-economic, workplace rights clauses into our contract.  To date, the University has agreed that the following provisions will be part of the contract. Union Recognition clause which describes what positions are in the bargaining unit Graduate Employees to receive Letter…

On Tuesday, February 25, graduate employees at NYU’s Washington Square and Polytechnic campuses voted overwhelmingly to approve the initial bargaining proposal of the GSOC–UAW 2110 Bargaining Committee. The following day, the Bargaining Committee met with NYU administration representatives for the first time in over a decade to begin the bargaining process. At the outset of the…