• 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,…

  • GSOC/UAW Supports Workers in Bangladesh

    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/

  • 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…

  • GSOC/UAW congratulates this year’s graduates at commencement

    GSOC/UAW congratulates this year’s graduates at commencement

    On Wednesday, May 22, GSOC/UAW supporters had a great time celebrating the All-University Commencement at Yankee Stadium. We talked with students and parents in the plaza outside the stadium, not only congratulating them , but also distributing flyers with the message that while “NYU is a great place to study, sadly at times it is not a great place…

  • [NYULOCAL] Council Speaker Christine Quinn Rallies In Support of NYU Grad Student Union

    [NYULOCAL] Council Speaker Christine Quinn Rallies In Support of NYU Grad Student Union

    Members of NYU’s Graduate Student Organizing Committee flexed their political muscle last Thursday when their rally for unionization was headlined by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and supported by over 250 other state elected officials. The GSOC—NYU’s currently unrecognized labor union for Teaching and Research Assistants—has campaigned for collective bargaining rights since 2004, when…

  • [WSN] Council member Christine Quinn advocates for student union rights

    [WSN] Council member Christine Quinn advocates for student union rights

    “We have been working on these issues at NYU for far too long.” City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s words, delivered outside Bobst Library, didn’t float up the twelve stories to John Sexton’s office. They were fired. On Thursday afternoon, Quinn and several other New York City leaders came to NYU to speak out in…

  • Taking Our Message to Sexton With Our Community Supporters

    Taking Our Message to Sexton With Our Community Supporters

    On Thursday, May 9, New York political leaders joined a group of enthusiastic GSOC/UAW supporters in confronting John Sexton’s NYU administration about the ongoing, human costs of its refusal to bargain with our union. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, State Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, and State Senator Brad Hoylman delivered a petition with signatures of over…

  • GSOC/UAW Meets with Deans Regarding Healthcare

    GSOC/UAW Meets with Deans Regarding Healthcare

    On Thursday May 2, we delivered our healthcare petition with more than 1000 signatures to Dean Lauren Benton of GSAS to ask her to advocate on behalf of our healthcare demands. The meeting also included the Associate Vice President for Student Health, the Dean for Humanities, the Dean for Social Sciences and the Dean for Sciences.…

  • Important Victory in Cinema Studies Means NYU Pays Insurance Premiums and M/M fees for more Grad Employees

    Important Victory in Cinema Studies Means NYU Pays Insurance Premiums and M/M fees for more Grad Employees

    Congratulations to PhD students in Cinema Studies!  NYU has now agreed to cover Maintenance of Matriculation and Health Insurance fees for Cinema Studies PhD students in their 5th, 6th and 7th years as of Fall 2013. This victory resulted from nearly a year of petitioning and organizing in Cinema Studies and in the context of more than…

  • [OP-ED WSN] Women’s History Month: A good time for NYU to become more inclusive

    [OP-ED WSN] Women’s History Month: A good time for NYU to become more inclusive

    Published as an op-ed in the Washington Square News on March 28, 2013 as “Cuts to NYU graduate employee benefits hurt gender inclusivity in academic workplace”. Here is the original text of the op-ed written by Ashley Bate and Kaitlin Noss. This Women’s History Month there is a curious silence about how NYU’s recent cuts…

  • Sign on to restore graduate health benefits

    Sign on to restore graduate health benefits

    Sign the petition urging NYU to restore our benefits, comply with the Affordable Care Act and ensure affordable child and dependent coverage  NYU’s Fall 2012 unilateral cuts to our health benefits highlighted the cost of the administration’s ongoing denial of RA/TA/GA collective bargaining rights and was also one of the many reasons more than…

  • NYU Continues to Insist on Withdrawal of NLRB Petition

    NYU Continues to Insist on Withdrawal of NLRB Petition

    Following up on our recent meeting, the NYU administration today rejected our proposal and communicated that, at this time, it will not change its position opposing the right to collective bargaining for nearly 1,000 graduate employees at NYU and NYU-Poly. To recap, we proposed that NYU re-commence collective bargaining with the grouping of graduate…