The Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC, UAW Local 2110) at New York University is on strike as of April 26, 2021. As NACLA’s web editor, I am a GSOC member and will be joining the strike. During 10 months of contract negotiations, NYU has failed to bargain in good faith. While the strike will be disruptive to NACLA’s operations, our staff supports GSOC and calls on NYU to meaningfully engage in contract negotiations. To learn more about the strike and how you can support, visit https://makingabetternyu.org/.
UAW works to sell out New York University strike before it starts
” on Wednesday, April 27, at 7 p.m. We encourage graduate students, undergraduates and workers from the New York City area to attend.
More than 2,000 graduate student workers at New York University (NYU) are preparing to go on strike on Monday for living wages, proper health care coverage, safe working conditions, adequate child care benefits, and the demand “NYPD off campus.” Two weeks ago, over 96 percent of the members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) at NYU, which is affiliated with the UAW, voted in favor of a strike.
UAW works overtime to end Columbia graduate strike before NYU graduate struggles begin
The Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC), affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW) are working overtime to bring the strike by 3,000 graduate workers at Columbia University to a close. The strike is currently on “pause,” a maneuver by the union to wind down the strike under the auspices of federal mediation. This action, carried out behind the backs of graduate students, has triggered overwhelming opposition from rank-and-file members, some of whom are continuing to strike.
The UAW is working as quickly as they can in order to prevent a situation in which two strikes at neighboring universities take place at the same time. The graduate worker union at New York University (NYU) the UAW-affiliated Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) has been purposely delaying a strike for months. Earlier this week, GSOC announced a strike deadline of April 26. This follows a vote at NYU, which conc
On March 15, Columbiaâs graduate student union began a three-week strike. Three days later, Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers met with University officials in their first bargaining session for a second contract. The following week, New York Universityâs graduate student union began voting to authorize a strike amid negotiations for its third contract â and on April 9, it voted 96.4 percent in favor.
Joe Bidenâs ascension to the White House has precipitated a flurry of activity by graduate student unions at private universities across the country, some of whom had avoided certain organizing efforts during the Trump administration amid fears that their cases would be used to shut down graduate studentsâ right to unionize altogether.
New York University graduate workers vote to strike as UAW steps up efforts to shut down Columbia struggle
The Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) at NYU released results of a strike authorization vote on April 8 revealing that 96 percent of graduate workers were prepared to strike. About two-thirds of the 2,000 workers participated in the poll. Graduate students at NYU have been negotiating with the university for over nine months over better wages, health care and child care benefits. Graduate students also demand that NYU cut ties with the New York Police Department (NYPD). The strike authorization vote comes at a critical juncture in the Columbia graduate student strike. Last week, the bargaining committee of the Graduate Workers of Columbia (GWC) proclaimed a “pause” of the strike of 3,000 workers, despite overwhelming opposition from the rank and file.