Nearly 1,000 full-time non-tenure track New York University faculty members will vote in a union election later this year free from interference by university management, according to an agreement …
Dozens of NYU researchers called for union recognition on Thursday, in a letter delivered outside university president Linda Mills’ office in Bobst Library. The protest marked the first time the union, NYU Researchers United, asked the university for recognition. The letter signed by over 210 researchers including postdoctoral researchers and graduate assistants called.
The majority of the around 4,000 researchers at NYU, including Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows, have signed authorization cards to form a union after ongoing efforts since May 2020.
Last month, the university announced that it is raising the minimum salary for postdoctoral fellows at NYU