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Tell NYU to Respect Our Democratic Choice for a Union
Please take 30 seconds right now to join hundreds of fellow grad students by signing our Open Letter urging NYU to respect our democratic choice to have a Union. The National Labor Relations Board may restore our legal right to collective bargaining before the end of this semester. Adding your voice will help send a…
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Give 5 minutes of feedback on our health benefit cuts
Did you know NYU recently made unilateral changes to the Graduate Student Health Insurance Plan (GSHIP)? Click here and take 5 minutes to tell us what YOU THINK about the changes. Without collective bargaining, NYU is free to make these types of changes to our benefits. Since graduate employees often cite the desire to have…
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Exciting News from the National Labor Relations Board
We have encouraging news! The National Labor Relations Board announced that it will review our petition to reassert our right to choose collective bargaining. This is great news because it moves us one step closer to getting our union certified. With this latest movement by the board, we could have an opportunity to vote…
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GOOD NEWS FROM THE LABOR BOARD – GSOC/UAW One Step Closer to Winning Back Our Union
The National Labor Relations Board has announced that it will review the controversial Bush-era decision [Brown University] that stripped graduate employees at private universities of the right to form unions. If –as is expected– the NLRB overturns Brown, a union election will be scheduled here at NYU, and we could have the opportunity to…
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GSOC Week of Action! March 26-30 plus Rally, March 29 at Bobst: BE THERE!
We have had a busy couple of weeks: last week, our combined action on Twitter and Facebook brought pressure to the NLRB to rule on our case now–and, this past Wednesday, we sent 201 signed letters from NYU graduate employees to the NLRB urging them to rule on our case immediately. Let’s keep up the pressure on…
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This Week: Oppose NYU2031 and remember the Triangle Fire Victims
NYU 2031 Expansion Press Conference Please join us on THURSDAY, MARCH 22 at 12 noon at City Hall to urge Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer to vote NO on John Sexton’s bloated plan to expand NYU on the backs of students and workers. This is a plan that exploits the community which has housed NYU since its…
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Tell the NLRB: Do the right thing now!
3 simple things you can do on Friday 3/16/12 between 12-2 PM to strongly encourage the NLRB to make a decision on our case and restore our democratic right to vote to join a union: Go to the NLRB Facebook Page and write in the comment section of the top post this statement: NYU Grad Students have waited long enough…
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Update on Trip to DC
GSOC-UAW started out the semester with quite a bang! This past Friday we took a bus full of GSOC activists to Washington D.C, to urge the NLRB to rule on our case and allow us our democratic right to vote for our union. After delivering a letter to the Board, we held a press conference out…
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GSOC-UAW Update and N17 Call to Action!
NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION — November 17th, 2011 at 1:30pm Click Here to confirm on our Facebook event page! WHERE: 44 West 4th Street (Gould Plaza) at 1:30pm Join the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW), NYU4OWS, U-CATS, undergraduates and other campus Unions on the 17th at 1:30 pm at 44 west 4th street (Gould Plaza). We…
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GSOC-UAW Action Update
As the academic year comes to a close, we, the NYU graduate employees, continue to organize to reaffirm our majority support for Our Union, GSOC/UAW! Even as the university administration continues its attempt to deny us our right to unionize, we continue to make significant progress toward winning union recognition and being able to collectively…
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Welcome Back!
We have an update on the progress of the hearings at the National Labor Relations Board. As we all know, the road to meaningful historical change is long and hard, and thanks to the NYU Administration’s deep pockets for anti-union litigation, our battle for recognition-something we take to be a basic human right-continues to be…
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GSOC/UAW NLRB Hearing Update
We’ve now had a total of three days of hearing at the NLRB. We have been presenting our case and putting evidence on the record, which is intended to demonstrate that graduate students employed as researchers, grad assistants, and teachers are employees and that we have the right to a union of our own…