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Solidarity with NYU’s clerical, technical, and administrative support staff- UCATS!
GSOC is only one of many unions at NYU fighting for the rights and dignity of its workers. We acknowledge and support the great work of UCATS, an allied union that represents many vital workers on campus. In particular, we stand in solidarity with their struggles to bargain over undue and unjust changes to…
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Statement of Solidarity with York University and University of Toronto
The Graduate Student Organizing Committee at NYU (GSOC-UAW Local 2110) stands in solidarity with our fellow graduate employees at York University (CUPE 3903) and the University of Toronto (CUPE 3902) as they continue their strikes for fair contracts. What CUPE 3903 is fighting for, including tuition rebates, enhancing benefits, increased funding and compensation, and…
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UAW Grad Employee Union Led Successful Campaign to Stop Discriminatory International Student ‘Fee’ at UMASS
In December 2003 the University of Massachusetts at Amherst began imposing a $65/semester ‘International Student Fee’ on international students. The fee was introduced to generate revenue for the university’s International Programs Office (IPO), to administer the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), a federally mandated program that tracks personal information about international students,…
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Help Save Research Funding
Email your Congressional Representative now to help save federal research funding As sequestration cuts have eaten into federal research funding, we have good news about how we can join UAW RAs, TAs and Postdocs at other universities to fight back. Our UAW colleagues at the University of Washington and the University of California have taken the lead…
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Brown University Decision
On July 15, 2004 the National Labor Relations Board issued a 3-2 decision reversing the legal precedent granting graduate student employees the right to form a union and declaring that, under federal law, graduate student assistants are not employees. This decision, which took the Board more than two and a half years to issue,…
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GSOC/UAW Supports Workers in Bangladesh
GSOC/UAW members took part in an international day of action, to pressure United States’ retailers, Walmart and Gap, to sign onto the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. Unsafe factories in Bangladesh have killed more than 1,800 workers since 2005. Check out the website to sign the petition and learn more: http://gapdeathtraps.com/
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Join GSOC/UAW in Support of Workers in Bangladesh June 29
Join GSOC/UAW, other NYC unions and community groups mobilizing for Bangladeshi Workers // Mass Funeral Procession to SoHo Retailers WHEN: Saturday, June 29 at 1:00pm WHERE: Petrosino Square , near Spring St. & Lafayette St. in Manhattan. RSVP: Click here if you would like to join a contingent of other GSOC/UAW grads on the 29th The UAW is a sponsor of…
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Help Save Science Funding: Join the Whiteboard Project!
Did you know that if Congress fails to strike a deal on the budget and we go off the fiscal cliff,science budget cuts of 8-10% will take effect – and billions of dollars of the federal fundingour work depends upon will be lost? NIH funding would be cut by $2.5 billion, the NSF by $586 million, NASA by…
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REMINDER: Dec 1st Rally and OWS Video
WORKERS AND STUDENTS UNITED Did you know that one in ten students graduate with $40,000 or more in debt, or that nearly six million 25 to 34 year olds are moving back in with their parents? Did you hear that 14.3% of recent college graduates do not have a job and that today it…
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IMPORTANT: NLRB Petition and Dec. 1st Rally
PETITION IN SUPPORT OF GRADUATE EMPLOYEE ORGANIZING An online petition has created by graduate students at the University of Chicago requesting the NLRB consider our appeal and reestablish our right to organize and bargain a union contract as graduate employees. Please add your name to the voices of graduate students around the country. The petition can be found at http://gradlaborcounts.org/. WORKERS AND…