• GSOC/UAW Membership Update

    We have great news! Citing “compelling reasons” to reconsider the 2004 Brown decision, the National Labor Relations Board ruled in our favor and has opened up our case for a hearing! This is big news for two reasons. First, if the Board decides in our favor after the hearings, they will order an election and graduate…

  • One Nation March for Social and Economic Justice

    One Nation March for Jobs, Justice and Peace / Saturday, October 2nd / Washington, D.C. On Saturday, October 2nd, hundreds of thousands of working people, union members, students, retirees, and civil rights and community activists will converge on Washington D.C. to peacefully rally for Jobs and a Just Economy. Our Union, along with the…

  • GSOC Rally TOMORROW, 9/16 from 11:45-12:30pm

    RALLY FOR OUR RIGHTS: JOIN US! TOMORROW, Thursday, 9/16 from 11:45-12:30pm in front of Bobst Library Please join us and grad union members from Yale, Stonybrook and elsewhere, as we call on the NYU administration to respect our democratic majority and our rights!  Representatives of the UAW and members of the adjunct union, ACT-UAW…

  • Welcome Back and Update from GSOC/UAW

    Welcome back!  We hope that you had a relaxing and productive summer and are ready for what is sure to be an eventful fall semester. We are writing to update you on our ongoing efforts to establish our union and secure collective bargaining rights for all TAs, RAs and GAs at NYU.  We would…

  • GSOC/UAW Has Filed for Legal Recognition!

    GREAT NEWS: GSOC/UAW Has Filed for Legal Recognition!!! Because the NYU administration refused to respect our majority and respond to our request for voluntary recognition, GSOC/UAW members began the legal process of reestablishing collective bargaining rights for NYU graduate employees.  GSOC/UAW members joined representatives from the UAW – including Julie Kushner, Assistant Director of Region…

  • [HUFFINGTONPOST] NYU Graduate Employees File for Union Recognition, Hope to Overturn Bush Era Ruling

    [HUFFINGTONPOST] NYU Graduate Employees File for Union Recognition, Hope to Overturn Bush Era Ruling

    This morning, for the first time in 10 years,graduate employees at New York University returned to the offices of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to file a petition for recognition of their union and a formal union election. From hand to hand, organizers passed a hefty box full of cards signed by a clear majority of…

  • [TCOHE] NYU Graduate Students Petition Labor Board for Union Vote

    [TCOHE] NYU Graduate Students Petition Labor Board for Union Vote

    Graduate students at New York University filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board on Monday, asking for a union-representation election. The move, which ultimately seeks to gain collective-bargaining rights for about 1,800 teaching and research assistants, comes a week after student organizers gave university administrators a deadline for voluntarily recognizing their union, affiliated with…

  • [GOTHAMIST] NYU Grad Students Want Their Union To Be Recognized

    [GOTHAMIST] NYU Grad Students Want Their Union To Be Recognized

    NYU’s graduate students who work as teaching assistants are attempting to bring back their union. The Graduate Student Organizing Committee/UAW Local 2110, along with Rep. Jerrold Nadler and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, presented NYU officials with a American Arbitration Association certificate indicating that majority of NYU’s graduate students want to be in a…

  • [IHE] Showdown on Grad Unions

    [IHE] Showdown on Grad Unions

    New York University is once again center stage in the legal and policy debate over whether graduate teaching assistants at private universities can form unions. On Tuesday, the United Auto Workers announced that it was formally asking the university to recognize a union of graduate research and teaching assistants, and that — if the…

  • UPDATE: GSOC Has Majority, Requests Recognition

    We are pleased to announce that the highly respected American Arbitration Association (AAA) has verified that a clear majority of NYU graduate employees have chosen to be represented by GSOC/UAW Local 2110 in collective bargaining with the NYU administration. Yesterday afternoon, a delegation formally presented the NYU administration with the official AAA certificate confirming our majority. …

  • [NYTIMES] Graduate Students Ask N.Y.U. to Recognize Union

    [NYTIMES] Graduate Students Ask N.Y.U. to Recognize Union

    Graduate students who assist professors with teaching and research may not seem like typical workers, but more than 1,000 such assistants petitioned New York University on Monday to recognize a union that would represent their interests. The school’s officials signaled they would not recognize such a union, which would be the only union of teaching assistants…

  • BIG NEWS from GSOC/UAW

    The moment we have been waiting for has arrived! A few weeks ago, President Obama made a set of recess appointments that included two new members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Now that the NLRB is constituted, we are preparing to move forward and regain collective bargaining rights for graduate employees at…