• An open letter

    An open letter

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  • BONUS PAYMENT NEWS

    Good news! NYU has finally figured out how to use a database! Retroactive bonus payments to workers from 2013-2015 will be paid out on July 31st. Thank you for standing together as we demanded fair and prompt payment! Together we are strong. Do you expect to receive a bonus? If you received an email…

  • Everything You Need to Know About Health Insurance

    2019-2020 is a new year, with new health insurance enrollments. Here’s our guide to navigating this messy bureaucratic system: Health Insurance 101: Have you already been guaranteed health insurance through your funding package this year? Don’t have any dependents to insure? Then great! You don’t have to do anything at all to be enrolled…

  • Text of One-Time Gross Payment Grievance

    This is the text of the grievance submitted to NYU this morning, June 15, 2015. Please email us at gsoc.comm@gmail.com with any questions! We write to file a Step 3 grievance with you as the Provost’s designee per Article XX, Section C of our contract. […] We are grieving the University’s failure to implement…

  • Stewards Elections Update

    Dear members, We write to report that steward candidate Patrick Cooper (Physics) has withdrawn his acceptance of nomination due to impending graduation, rendering an election unnecessary. There being no other contested seats, the following members have hereby been elected by acclamation to serve on the GSOC Assembly of Stewards representing GSAS SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND…

  • Stewards Elections Update – Voting for GSAS Sciences Technology and Math Stewards on May 6th and 7th

    We write to report the results of the April 5 call for nominations to serve on the GSOC Assembly of Stewards, and to announce an election to be held this Wednesday and Thursday, May 6-7 to determine steward representation for GSAS SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND MATH. Balloting will take place in the Graduate Student Lounge,…

  • Nominations for Assembly of Stewards have opened!

    Role of Stewards GSOC’s decision-making body over the next three weeks will transition from the Bargaining Committee to the Assembly of Stewards, made up of 30 elected Head Stewards and an unlimited number of unelected Volunteer Stewards. All stewards will be required to undergo training in grievance procedure so they fulfill their primary role…

  • GSOC Makes History Again! Contract Overwhelmingly Ratified!

    GSOC Makes History Again! Contract Overwhelmingly Ratified!

    Downloadable version of contract can be found here. See below for embedded PDF 18 years after a majority of NYU graduate employees first organized as GSOC-UAW, 13 years after we ratified our first contract, 10 years after NYU stripped recognition of our Union and refused to negotiate a second contract, 9 years after our…

  • Articles of Representation and Elections

    Below you can read or download the draft of the Articles of Representation and Elections prepared by the Bylaws Committee (BLC) over and ratified by membership on April 22, 2015. The BLC met numerous times in person and corresponded by email to put together these Articles which will carry our union through until the…

  • Memorandum of Agreement with NYU

    Downloadable version can be found here.

  • March 11 Town Hall Podcast

    Visit our Soundcloud to find our March 11 Town Hall available for streaming audio. Here are some timestamps to help you find what you’re looking for: beginning – opening statements of solidarity and congratulations from allies including Jonah Birch of SLAM, Andrew Ross of SCA, and Paula Chakravartty of MCC. 30:00 – summary and…

  • Details of Tentative Agreement with NYU

    Details of Tentative Agreement with NYU

    Downloadable version can be found here.