• [IHE] Revived Fight on Grad Unions

    [IHE] Revived Fight on Grad Unions

    WASHINGTON — The National Labor Relations Board announced Friday that it will reconsider a 2004 ruling by the board that took away the right of graduate students at private universities to unionize. The 3-to-1 vote to reconsider the 2004 ruling was brought about by efforts to unionize graduate teaching assistants at New York University and graduate…

  • GOOD NEWS FROM THE LABOR BOARD – GSOC/UAW One Step Closer to Winning Back Our Union

    GOOD NEWS FROM THE LABOR BOARD – GSOC/UAW One Step Closer to Winning Back Our Union

    The National Labor Relations Board has announced that it will review the controversial Bush-era decision [Brown University] that stripped graduate employees at private universities of the right to form unions. If –as is expected– the NLRB overturns Brown, a union election will be scheduled here at NYU, and we could have the opportunity to…

  • GSOC Week of Action! March 26-30 plus Rally, March 29 at Bobst: BE THERE!

    GSOC Week of Action! March 26-30 plus Rally, March 29 at Bobst: BE THERE!

    We have had a busy couple of weeks: last week, our combined action on Twitter and Facebook brought pressure to the NLRB to rule on our case now–and, this past Wednesday, we sent 201 signed letters from NYU graduate employees to the NLRB urging them to rule on our case immediately. Let’s keep up the pressure on…

  • This Week: Oppose NYU2031 and remember the Triangle Fire Victims

    This Week: Oppose NYU2031 and remember the Triangle Fire Victims

    NYU 2031 Expansion Press Conference Please join us on THURSDAY, MARCH 22 at 12 noon at City Hall to urge Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer to vote NO on John Sexton’s bloated plan to expand NYU on the backs of students and workers. This is a plan that exploits the community which has housed NYU since its…

  • Tell the NLRB: Do the right thing now!

    Tell the NLRB: Do the right thing now!

    3 simple things you can do on Friday 3/16/12 between 12-2 PM to strongly encourage the NLRB to make a decision on our case and restore our democratic right to vote to join a union: Go to the NLRB Facebook Page and write in the comment section of the top post this statement: NYU Grad Students have waited long enough…

  • Update on Trip to DC

    GSOC-UAW started out the semester with quite a bang! This past Friday we took a bus full of GSOC activists to Washington D.C, to urge the NLRB to rule on our case and allow us our democratic right to vote for our union. After delivering a letter to the Board, we held a press conference out…

  • [TCOHE] NYU Graduate Students Urge Labor-Relations Board to Act on Union Representation

    [TCOHE] NYU Graduate Students Urge Labor-Relations Board to Act on Union Representation

    A delegation of 50 graduate-student workers from New York University traveled by bus to Washington today to deliver a letter to the National Labor Relations Board that asks for a quick decision on their nearly two-year-old petition for an election to vote on union representation. In June a National Labor Relations Board official declared that NYU…

  • REMINDER: Dec 1st Rally and OWS Video

    WORKERS AND STUDENTS UNITED Did you know that one in ten students graduate with $40,000 or more in debt, or that nearly six million 25 to 34 year olds are moving back in with their parents? Did you hear that 14.3% of recent college graduates do not have a job and that today it…

  • IMPORTANT: NLRB Petition and Dec. 1st Rally

    PETITION IN SUPPORT OF GRADUATE EMPLOYEE ORGANIZING An online petition has created by graduate students at the University of Chicago requesting the NLRB consider our appeal and reestablish our right to organize and bargain a union contract as graduate employees. Please add your name to the voices of graduate students around the country. The petition can be found at http://gradlaborcounts.org/. WORKERS AND…

  • GSOC-UAW Update and N17 Call to Action!

    NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION — November 17th, 2011 at 1:30pm Click Here to confirm on our Facebook event page! WHERE: 44 West 4th Street (Gould Plaza) at 1:30pm Join the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW), NYU4OWS, U-CATS, undergraduates and other campus Unions on the 17th at 1:30 pm at 44 west 4th street (Gould Plaza). We…

  • Occupy Wall Street with the UAW This Saturday!

    10:45 AM: Zuccotti Park in Manhattan (at North West Corner Broadway & Liberty Street) 12:00 PM: Student Convergence 12:00PM Washington Square General Assembly 5:00 PM Times Square Convergence Occupy Wall Street to Target Chase Bank! The Occupy Wall Street Labor Outreach Committee is organizing a march from Liberty Plaza (Zuccotti Park) to a nearby Chase…

  • Teach-In: Why Should Students Join Occupy Wall Street?

    TEACH-IN: WHY SHOULD STUDENTS JOIN OCCUPY WALL ST? WHERE: NYU Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan Street, Room 216 WHEN: Wednesday, October 12th · 5:00pm  –  7:00pm A new group of NYU students and workers has formed in solidarity with Occupy Wall St. They have scheduled a Teach-In: Why Should Students Join Occupy Wall Street? In the teach-in they…