• Quick Explainer: Why is Cops Off Campus a Workplace Health & Safety Concern?

    What are the health and safety risks associated with cops? -Grad workers have given many testimonials about being harassed by police while on campus. -Currently, NYPD can enter campus buildings without a warrant. NYPD in and around NYU buildings are regularly spotted without wearing masks or proper PPE and have responded aggressively when asked to put…

  • Bargaining Update- April 6th

    If you missed our previous quick explainers: living wage, health care, protection for international & immigrant workers, and Strike Vote #RealTalk.   What happened in bargaining yesterday?  After asking for 3-weeks to prepare, NYU came back with ONE counter-proposal.  At the last bargaining session (March 18th), we made a number of counters, altering our proposals and setting out new frameworks…

  • Quick Explainer: Your protected rights to vote YES as international & immigrant workers

    If you missed our previous quick explainers: living wage & health care. What we have now Our current contract does not stipulate any financial or legal assistance or civic protections to our international and immigrant graduate workers. International and immigrant workers make up 40% of our membership, and given NYU’s rising status as a “global university,” we believe that our…

  • Quick Explainer: What’s the deal with Health Care?

    If you missed our quick explainer yesterday on living wage, here it is.  TL;DR: The high enrollment & out-of-pocket costs of our current health care plan leave graduate workers with hundreds to thousands of dollars in medical costs, which is especially discriminatory toward those who are chronically ill. We’re asking the university to automatically enroll students in the…

  • Quick Explainer: What is a living wage in NYC?

    What we have now The current minimum rate for hourly grad workers is $20/hour. An employee working 20 hours a week—the most permitted at NYU—earns just $400 a week before taxes. What NYU is offering NYU’s current proposal would raise the minimum hourly rate by only $1 in the first year of the contract.…

  • IN RESPONSE TO NYU STATEMENTS BY SPOKESPERSON JOHN BECKMAN

    Graduate workers at NYU are among the university’s lowest-paid workers. After nine months of bargaining, NYU continues to offer only $1 increases on hourly pay and has offered insubstantial raises on total compensation for graduate workers who receive stipends. The university has refused to bargain at all on a wide range of key issues, from tuition…

  • Strike Vote Deadline Extended

    View this email in your browser Dear fellow member,  Forgot to vote? Or couldn’t find your ballot in time? To ensure maximum participation, the strike vote deadline has been extended to April 8 2021 11:45pm Eastern Time. If you are eligible to vote,* you should have received another ballot email TODAY (Monday, March 29) at 11:46…

  • Quick Explainer: We already have benefits. Why are we bargaining for more?

    “Our current contract gives us protections and benefits: we have 90% health care coverage, and a 20/hr wage. So why vote to authorize a potential strike and rock the boat?’” Let’s not forget that the benefits we have now are a direct result of the Strike Authorization Vote in 2015 and that we won…

  • Still thinking? Here’s Why Your Colleagues are Voting Yes

    Dear fellow member,  On Tuesday we kicked off the strike vote with an online and in-person rally at Gould Plaza. Thank you to the over one hundred members and supporters who showed up online and in-person to let NYU know that we’re not backing down in our fight for a fair contract! Read on below for…

  • NYU GRADUATE WORKERS ANNOUNCE STRIKE VOTE

    PDF version of this press release Vote Kicks Off at Rally 12pm Tuesday, March 23, 2021 For Immediate Release: March 19, 2021 GSOC Press Committee: gsoc.press@gmail.com GSOC calls vote to authorize a strike at NYU after 9 months of contract bargaining Vote to kick off with in-person and virtual rally  After GSOC delivered a…

  • NYU GRADUATE WORKERS ANNOUNCE STRIKE VOTE

    Vote Kicks Off at Rally 12pm Tuesday, March 23, 2021 New York, NY: ​The bargaining committee of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (​GSOC-UAW Local 2110​) has c​alled for a strike authorization vote​ after 9 months of negotiations with New York University. Starting March 23, union workers will vote to decide whether to empower the bargaining committee to…

  • 1200 union grad workers demand “NYU, stop stonewalling!”

    Petition of 1,200 graduate workers to be delivered at event Monday, March 1, 2021  NYU has been stalling bargaining for eight months Next bargaining session March 2, 2021; open for all graduate students to attend New York, NY: In a petition by the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW Local 2110), over 1,200 graduate workers at…