by Justin | Dec 10, 2021 | ACT-UAW Local 7902, New York University
Instructors at the institute were cut off from in-School of Professional Studies students they had been working with. Ritter confirmed that several schools formally appealed the dean’s decision because they had students that depended on the English Language Insitute’s…
by Justin | Nov 9, 2021 | Columbia University, GSOC-UAW 2110, Harvard University, HGSU – UAW Local 5118, New York University, Student Workers of Columbia
From the Ivy League to the West Coast, graduate student workers are going on strike because of low pay and meager benefits. Graduate union strikes deserve our solidarity as they pave the way for labor struggles nationwide. Read the article here.
by Justin | Oct 25, 2021 | Columbia University, Harvard University, New York University, University of California, University of Washington
While 2021 was a year of staggering endowment growth, 2020 was a year of deep and sometimes existential cuts. At university after university, administrations responded to the pandemic with fiscal discipline and layoffs. Read the article here.
by Justin | Jun 3, 2021 | Collective Bargaining, GSOC-UAW 2110, New York University
“We are lucky at NYU to have a very strong union and we had a strong first contract,” Tova Benjamin, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at NYU, told me in a recent phone interview, “but that strong first contract wasn’t going to stay strong if we didn’t fight for all the…
by Justin | May 5, 2021 | Graduate Workers, GSOC-UAW 2110, New York University, Postdoctoral Researchers
Zach Schwartz-Weinstein marched alongside fellow graduate student workers and union supporters from Judson Memorial Church to Washington Square Park on April 27, 2006, to support the recognition of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee. They demanded that NYU…
by Justin | May 1, 2021 | Graduate Workers, GSOC-UAW 2110, New York University, Postdoctoral Researchers
The urgency of the union’s financial demands has been heightened by the pandemic and the economic crisis, as the academic job market has been squeezed by hiring freezes. “They’re trying to bully us to drop our wage proposals lower and lower,” said Ellis Garey, 28, a…
