• International Student Visa Seminar November 8

    International Student Visa Seminar November 8

    We will be sponsoring a seminar on visa and immigration issues on Friday, November 8, 12-130pm, in Waverly 366. If you have questions about options for continuing to work in the United States after graduation or other questions about your status as an international graduate employee, this will be a great opportunity to learn. We will also…

  • GSOC/UAW Informational Session Held

    Thanks to all the grad employees who made for a lively discussion at last night’s GSOC/UAW informational session! Expanding women’s access to the academic workforce by negotiating for improved family-friendly policies, a stronger voice on and off campus for international grad employees, and more stability in health insurance costs so we can focus on…

  • [TCOHE] NYU Again Tells Union It’s Willing to Bargain—but Not With Everyone

    [TCOHE] NYU Again Tells Union It’s Willing to Bargain—but Not With Everyone

    New York University is willing to let some graduate students vote on whether to form a union, marking a possible return to the collective-bargaining rights they once held. It’s a pitch the university made months ago and reiterated to union organizers on Friday. In a letter to a United Auto Workers official, Terrance Nolan,…

  • [IHE] Shift on Grad Unions

    [IHE] Shift on Grad Unions

    New York University on Friday offered the union seeking to organize graduate students something it has long sought: The university said it would stop legal proceedings seeking to block an election on a union for teaching assistants, and that it would respect the results of the election and negotiate a contract, should graduate students…

  • NYU Renews its (Insufficient) Offer to GSOC/UAW

    NYU Renews its (Insufficient) Offer to GSOC/UAW

    The NYU administration has once again reached out with an offer to respect the right of teaching assistants (TAs) to choose GSOC/UAW as our Union, but only if we agree to exclude research assistants (RAs) and withdraw our pending petition at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). As you may remember, NYU made this offer…

  • Help Save Research Funding

    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…

  • [#TBT 2000] history votes yes!

    Another GSOC-UAW #TBT dating back to the early days, circa 2000. NYU graduate employees at the time of their successful election that led to the first and only Union contract for RAs and TAs at a private university in the US. Over a decade later RAs and TAs at NYU continue to show majority support, with…

  • [WSN] Mayoral candidates send letter to Sexton, administration

    [WSN] Mayoral candidates send letter to Sexton, administration

    Mayoral candidates sent a letter on Friday, Sept. 6 to NYU President John Sexton urging him and the administration to recognize graduate, research and teaching assistants’ rights to unionize. Christine Quinn, Bill de Blasio, Bill Thompson, John Liu and Sal Albanese support the graduate workers ability to collectively bargain in their letter. Collective bargaining…

  • NYC mayoral candidates urge Sexton to respect our majority

    NYC mayoral candidates urge Sexton to respect our majority

    Five New York City mayoral candidates sent a letter to President Sexton today urging him to respect our majority choice for GSOC/UAW as GAs, RAs and TAs.  This letter adds to the growing public scrutiny of the current administration and builds on the open letter from more than 250 elected and community leaders back…

  • [#TBT 2000] All the Way Back to the Early days

    [#TBT 2000] All the Way Back to the Early days

    GSOC-UAW #TBT all the way back to the early days, circa 2000. Any GSOC-UAW alumni out there recognize yourselves? GSOC-UAW activists representing their departments, proudly displaying their support around the time of the successful NLRB election which led to the first and only Union contract for graduate employees at a private university in the US. Twelve…

  • NYU Respect Our Rights: GSOC-UAW 2012-13 Year-in-Review

    NYU Respect Our Rights: GSOC-UAW 2012-13 Year-in-Review

    With the 2013-2014 year just around the corner, we’d like to catch you up and reflect on what we accomplished through GSOC/UAW this past year, where we stand and what we plan to do in the year to come to win back collective bargaining at NYU. An eventful year moving NYU closer to respecting…

  • Important Update on Grad Healthcare for 2013-14

    Important Update on Grad Healthcare for 2013-14

    Hope the summer’s going well. As we’re all getting good work done in the classrooms, libraries, studios, labs, and offices across NYU, we wanted to give an important update on our healthcare campaign and next year’s benefits. The NYU central administration has once again imposed unilateral changes to our health plan, which will take…