• June 1 Members’ Email

    Dear GSOC members, After almost a year of delays, NYU has finally started processing outstanding back pay—including retroactive wages, service bonuses, and vacation pay—for Academic Year 2020–2021, and is expected to process most service bonuses and vacation pay for 2021–22 this summer.However, we are already hearing from some members who still have not received…

  • Retroactive Pay

    Dear fellow worker, With our new Collective Bargaining Agreement, we won raises or bonuses for all workers, including those who worked in eligible hourly positions, as non-STEM research assistants, and in teaching positions during the academic year 2020-2021.  Depending on your position, you may be eligible to receive retroactive pay. Hourly workers and non-STEM Research Assistants…

  • Contract Ratified!

    Dear member, Our new contract has now been ratified! GSOC members voted YES by a 99% majority to ratify the contract (1103 in favor, 11 against). We couldn’t have done this without all of you and a strong united strike. What does this mean for you? Review the agreement here. Our new contract will be retroactive from…

  • TENTATIVE AGREEMENT WITH NYU REACHED, MEMBERSHIP TO VOTE

    Tentative agreement reached after three weeks of a strike by graduate workers at NYU Strike ends, graduate workers return to work including grading student work Ratification of contract will take place by online vote May 17 – 24   New York, NY: Strikes work.The graduate workers for New York University (GSOC-UAW local 2110) end their…

  • May 10th – Bargaining Update

    Dear Fellow Members: As we begin week 3 of our strike, it’s clear that the strike is working! Check out the bargaining update below for updates on major wins around our international and immigrant worker demands. These wins are significant, and they only happened because of YOU withholding your labor and making our disruption…

  • NYU Teacher Residency Supports the Strike

    This resolution was adopted by consensus. Thank you, Diana Turk, Director of Teacher EducationThe faculty of the NYU Teacher Residency believes that graduate students should be free to act on their own convictions about the union issues before them. Whatever our individual views of this important matter, we are intent upon continuing to foster…

  • The Long Island University Faculty Federation Supports the Strike

    The Long Island University Faculty Federation sends our support to the members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee | United Auto Workers at New York University. We affirm your strike for a living wage, expanded healthcare, childcare, support for international students, and better protections against all forms of harassment. Ensuring just wages and working…

  • Autoworker Caravan Supports the Strike

    Autoworker Caravan stands in solidarity with our UAW siblings at NYU who are on strike for livable wages and fair working conditions.  It is inconceivable for the administration to keep the workers, who make NYU such a great university, in poverty level conditions.  Graduate workers have become the lifeblood of the school.  NYU cannot…

  • MLK Scholars Endorse the Strike

    As scholars in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholars Program, we are writing and signing this letter in support of the ongoing graduate student workers strike and their efforts to secure just working conditions. This letter was neither endorsed nor rejected by the current administrative team in charge of the program and/or administration at…

  • Institute for Public Knowledge

    POSTPONED The Future of Democracy: What Americans Want from Reform Thank you for your interest in tonight’s Future of Democracy event at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge, “What Americans Want from Reform,” with Dr. Paul C. Light. We must inform you that we are postponing this event to stand in solidarity with NYU graduate…

  • Bargaining Update-May 5th

    Our strike is making NYU move on a number of issues, but we need to keep fighting to win the contract we deserve!  -NYU has finally countered on compensation, while still falling short of our demand for a living wage. NYU has raised its offer of $21/hour by only 50 CENTS, that is, an…

  • Statement of Support for NYU Graduate Student Workers by Liberal Studies Faculty

    We, the undersigned faculty of Liberal Studies, believe that graduate students should be free to act on their own convictions about any union contract negotiations before them. We recognize that graduate students, like other workers, have the right to strike, a right they have exercised. We intend to continue to foster an atmosphere of…