living wage

  • Quick Explainer: What is a living wage in NYC?

    What we have now The current minimum rate for hourly grad workers is $20/hour. An employee working 20 hours a week—the most permitted at NYU—earns just $400 a week before taxes. What NYU is offering NYU’s current proposal would raise the minimum hourly rate by only $1 in the first year of the contract.…

  • Quick Explainer: We already have benefits. Why are we bargaining for more?

    “Our current contract gives us protections and benefits: we have 90% health care coverage, and a 20/hr wage. So why vote to authorize a potential strike and rock the boat?’” Let’s not forget that the benefits we have now are a direct result of the Strike Authorization Vote in 2015 and that we won…