• Welcome Back! GSOC Update and Info on Grad Employment Restructuring

    Welcome back! We hope everyone had a safe and productive summer and look forward to seeing you this year. It’s going to be a big year for our union!  Please read on to learn more about our campaign and for updates about NYU’s restructuring of graduate employment.   Update on Graduate Employment Restructuring As…

  • Why FAR 4 Fails Graduate Employees

    On Friday, June 19, the NYU administration formally announced its intention to implement FAR 4 (Financial Aid Restructuring 4) in September 2009. Developed behind closed doors by an undisclosed group of NYU administrators, FAR 4 is a poorly conceived and hastily implemented attempt at union-busting that GSOC/UAW Local 2110 finds unconscionable, both in the…

  • CALL TO ACTION: GSOC Update & Response to New FAR-4 Interim Report

    At noon on Monday, April 20, GSOC/UAW Local 2110 held a one-hour silent work-in in Bobst Library.  While quietly studying and working in the lobby of Bobst, approximately 80-90 GSOC members wore signs questioning the details of the FAR-4 proposal.  At 1pm, the union marched across Washington Square Park and delivered letters to Deans…

  • [IHE] New Idea on Grad Students, Unions

    [IHE] New Idea on Grad Students, Unions

    New York University has been the site of a historic breakthrough for the push to unionize graduate teaching assistants — and a bitter strike to preserve the union, which ended in failure, without collective bargaining. NYU administrators are now floating an idea that would give graduate students the right to join the university’s adjunct union. The…

  • FAR-4: How the Proposed MacCracken Restructuring Will Affect You and NYU

    GSOC Official Statement on FAR-4 Please read below for more information on the NYU administration’s FAR-4 — Financial Aid Restructuring 4 — proposal to restructure graduate employee funding and work arrangements at NYU.  The proposal would remove the teaching requirement from MacCracken fellowships.  The NYU administration claims that all graduate employees engaged in teaching…

  • [IHE] An Invitation to Unionize

    [IHE] An Invitation to Unionize

    NEW YORK — The chair of the National Labor Relations Board gave a strong indication here Monday that, now that the board has new members appointed by President Obama, unions could expect it to back collective bargaining rights for graduate teaching assistants at private universities. Her remarks came as graduate students at the University…

  • [NYULOCAL] A Member of GSOC Explains Why NYU Graduate Students Are Protesting Inside Bobst

    [NYULOCAL] A Member of GSOC Explains Why NYU Graduate Students Are Protesting Inside Bobst

    Today from 1pm to 2pm about 60 graduate employees held a “work-in” inside Bobst Sydney aka hard eight download. You may have seen us with our blue t-shirts and signs hung around our neck. We tried to remain silent as we were grading exams and papers. Our action drew attention to the labor that we do everyday…

  • [NYULOCAL] Breaking: Graduate Students Protest In Bobst

    [NYULOCAL] Breaking: Graduate Students Protest In Bobst

    1:50pm – The graduate students union here at NYU, GSOC, is currently protesting in the lobby of Bobst with placards and flyers. 1:55pm – They were oringinally sitting along the benchs in the main lobby and flyering near the main doors, but now seem to be leaving the building. 1:59pm – Gathered at the…

  • [IHE] Return of Grad Union Movement

    [IHE] Return of Grad Union Movement

    Unions worked hard for President Obama in November — and those in academic unions have had high hopes that his actions would revive the movement to organize graduate teaching assistants at private universities. In his first move related to the National Labor Relations Board, Obama has cheered those unions by designating as chair Wilma B.…