Today we delivered a petition to
@nyuniversity
President Andy Hamilton signed by a majority of contract faculty—over 500 of us from each school and department—urging the administration to agree to a fair and expeditious process to verify our majority.
Likewise, if you teach college students, you should be in a union; if you're a researcher, you should be in a union; if treat and care for patients, you should be in a union; if you are a administrator at a college, you should be in a union; if you're a janitor at college you sho
If you sell coffee, you should be in a union. If you do oil changes, you should be in a union; if you work at a bank, you should be in a union. If you sell shoes, you should be in a union, if you work retail, you should be in a union, if you serve at a restaurant, you should be i
We are thrilled to announce a major milestone in our union drive: yesterday, we and the
@nyuniversity
administration signed a groundbreaking, historic agreement to hold a fair representation election.
At the plants where tiers were eliminated, some employees could receive up to a $16/hr ($32,000/yr) increase. These are absolutely life changing amounts of money.
Huge congratulations to
@dukegradunion
, which won its union vote by a huge margin: 1,000 to 131. Duke grad workers are now one of biggest unions in North Carolina. The academic union wave rolls on!
We are so proud to be part of a movement with the strong and brave academic workers at Rutgers who strike tomorrow. We stand with you,
@ruaaup
and
@ruaaup_ptl
.
We finally get the chance to vote for our union on February 27 and 28. Vote UNION YES to start bargaining for job security, the salaries we deserve, and guaranteed academic freedom.
We love watching our colleagues across the Atlantic fighting, like us, for a decent higher ed system that supports themselves and their students. We stand with
@ucu
.
That’s right, President
@ShawnFainUAW
. Groundbreaking research should mean groundbreaking contracts. As fellow
@UAW
academic workers, we stand with our siblings in
@spocuaw
. ✊
Today is
@spocuaw
’s 7th day on the picket line, as the first postdoc researchers in the private sector to walk out on strike.
As
@ShawnFainUAW
said, “You produce scientific breakthroughs, so you deserve record gains. Groundbreaking research should mean groundbreaking contracts.”
SOLIDARITY FOREVER. 💛💙 Thank you to our Philly Local
#SagAftraMembers
for showing how we are
#SagAftraStrong
. While we fight for a fair contract, we stand in solidarity with the UAW in their own fight.
#StandUpUAW
There are about 1000 contract faculty at NYU, among whom Maitland Jones was one. We're forming a union, and majority of us have already signed up. If you're writing about the Maitland Jones story and want to understand why and how he was fired, reach out to us. We'll gladly talk!
This semester at
@nyuniversity
is going to be a blast, because we’re a union university and we and are siblings and allies are going to make sure everyone knows it.
A reminder to university bosses that when they deal with us, they’re dealing with a newly emboldened
@UAW
, which is fighting for fair wages, a just economy, and a just transition. Big 3 execs misread the UAW; don’t make the same mistake.
Tonight at 11:59, the contracts of our
@uaw
brothers and sisters who work for the Big Three auto manufacturers expire, and baring something surprising there will be history's first simultaneous strike against all of the Big Three. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our siblings.
BIG NEWS ON OUR ORGANIZING DRIVE: we got the
@nyuniversity
president's attention! He's promised a meeting to “consider ways in which we might move forward.” It's a good first step, but we haven't won the fair process we need and deserve, and we're fighting 'til we have it.
Why does
@jacremes
, a clinical associate professor at Gallatin, want a union? He wants to build a movement to protect academia from those who would undermine in--and because strong unions in all sectors is best way to fight fascism. A majority of NYU contract faculty agree.
A majority of contract faculty at NYU say: we need a union! We urge the administration to agree to a fair and expeditious process to recognize our union.
A majority of
@nyuniversity
's full-time, non-tenure track, continuing contract faculty say we need a union, and we want a fair process by which the administration will recognize us. Who are we, and what does that mean?
New: following up on its very recent faculty representation victories at NYU, USC, and Wellesley,
@uaw
filed a representation last Friday to represent a bargaining unit of 3,100 full-time and regular part-time non-tenure track faculty. Hat tip:
@UnionElections
A year ago today, we announced that a majority of NYU contract faculty support a union. Our support has continued to grow, and we’re eager to move forward and secure recognition.
It was an honor to join our labor movement siblings to remember the 146 martyrs of the
@trianglefire
. We were especially moved to hear our student Hazel of Pay Your Workers NYU (pictured) call on the administration to make sure Nike pays the workers who make our NYU apparel.
Why does artist Nina Katchadourian, a clinical professor in Gallatin, want a union? She remembers before she had a good job, and with a union she can make sure none of her colleagues has to face that stress and insecurity. A majority of NYU contract faculty agree.
We and our siblings from
@uaw7902
,
@GSOCUAW
, and cultural and academic workers from across
@UAWRegion9A
today are with union members from every industry and sector throughout city marching in the
@CentralLaborNYC
Labor Day Parade.
When academic workers like us join unions, we're not just joining with our colleagues to bargain for better wages and conditions. Not just other academic workers who comprise the strongest movement to defend the academy. We join with millions of other workers who stand with us.
With official strike sanction granted, UAW now has support of 1200 affiliates & 2 million members of
@CaliforniaLabor
.🔥
Building/Construction Trades supporting; Teamsters Joint Councils 7 & 42 issue sanction so members can honor picket lines.
#FairUCNow
Newly elected
@UAWRegion9A
Director and International Executive Board member
@mancillabrando
came yesterday to tell the
@nyuniversity
administration that the
@UAW
's 400,000 members stand with us in demanding a fair process. Join them:
Good morning especially to our newest UAW siblings: postdocs at Princeton who overwhelmingly voted for their union yesterday. The UAW now has over 100,000 academic workers!
Contract faculty have personally absorbed a host of costs associated with teaching remotely, and NYU has frozen research funds and cancelled annual increases. Faculty and students need support now!
Congratulations to the latest group on the university unionization wave: NYU resident assistants, who today have announced that a majority of them have signed union cards. 🎓✊🌊 NYU is a union campus, more and more so each day.
The MAJORITY of NYU Resident Assistants across campus have officially joined the effort to unionize as Student Workers At NYU (SWAN)! ResLife functions because of us and it’s time our treatment in this role reflects that so we can best serve residents and the whole NYU community.
Yesterday we practiced our picketing and told the
@nyuniversity
administration, loudly and at length, that we want a union, we will fight for our union, and that we demand a fair and fast process to recognize our union. And we promised to come back if they don’t agree.
Together with other members of
@uawregion9a
, including our many professional, academic, and cultural worker siblings, we were thrilled to join our
@sagaftra
union siblings yesterday on their picket line. (📸
@vitasoystan
)
Why does poet and geographer
@saharromani
, a clinical assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, want a union? When we work together, it gives us a voice to name and negotiate work conditions that are just and sustainable. A majority of NYU contract faculty agree.
Huge, amazing thanks to
@LIUNA
Local 79 for their solidarity. Here’s Tafadar Sourov speaking on behalf of all of the Laborer brothers and sisters, who came out to support NYU contract faculty right to a fair process and collective bargaining. cc
@LiUNAEasternReg
In 9 days we get to make history and vote for our union. Some of our colleagues spoke to
@labornotes
'
@JeffSchuhrke
about what's at stake, how we've come this far, and why they're voting UNION YES on Feb 27 and 28.
Good morning to our siblings in
@gsocuaw
who are demanding $1.3m in back wages today at 2:30 and to our siblings in
@AAUPTNS
,
@UAW7902
, and across the New School who are joining us at 3:30, and to ourselves rallying at 3:00.
We’re so excited for our Wellesley contract faculty friends and colleagues who voted overwhelmingly for their union and are now officially unionized. The academic union wave has been growing and growing, but this one is especially exciting for us. 🎓✊🌊
Why does Mark Braley, a clinical associate professor in the Expository Writing Program, want a union? Because we deserve fair compensation, stable work, and a voice in university decisions. A majority of NYU contract faculty agree.
Shawn Fain, president of
@UAW
, on the Hollywood strikes:
"Some people might not think that writers and actors have a lot in common with autoworkers, but we do."
"All of us are at war with corporate greed and with companies that are prioritizing profits over people."
BREAKING: Unions at
@nyuniversity
representing part-time faculty (
@uaw7902
), grad workers (
@GSOCUAW
), and clerical and technical workers (
@UCATS3882
) call on the administration to agree to a fair process to recognize our union. Join them:
Tomorrow we’ll join our siblings from across the labor movement to dedicate the new
@trianglefire
memorial. Then just afterwards, NYU student activists will rally at the Brown Building to demand that
@nyuniversity
pay the workers who make our NYU branded clothing.
🚨BREAKING: 3,100 professors at Harvard University are forming a union as
@HAWorkers
and seeking to join
@UAW
.
This is the largest union filing of the years so far.
Why does Andrew Torres, a clinical assistant professor in Steinhardt, want a union? Individuals can't effectively negotiate with NYU. He wants collective power to bargain for better salary, childcare, job mobility, and housing. A majority of NYU clinical faculty agree.
Good morning especially to the brave, strong, and proud members of
@UAW
Locals 2250, 12, and 900, who are the first to Stand Up for themselves, their 150,000 Big Three siblings, and all workers in all industries across the country.
#StandUpUAW
We gave
@nyuniversity
a week to answer our petition for a fair and quick process to recognize our union. You can come wait for an answer on March 1 at 1pm. Tell the administration to respect our democratic right to unionize! RSVP:
Today is National Voter Registration Day. Do as this early '40s CIO pamphlet tells you and register today to vote. (image from the Mildred Jeffrey Papers at the
@ReutherLibrary
via
@UAW_Archivist
)
Thanks to the sisters and brothers of
@local79nyc
who are joining us on the picket at
@nyuniversity
’s administration offices in Bobst Library. We’re here for another 45 minutes—you can come too!
University of Washington students have joined UC and Cornell students in supporting
@SBWorkersUnited
by demanding their universities throw union busters off campus.
“Our students are not the reason that our jobs are insecure. The NYU administration is the reason why our jobs are insecure,”
@schadenfreulein
tells
@nyunews
’s
@aabbyywilson
.
Over 500 of
@nyuniversity
's contract faculty just presented a petition to the administration asking for a fair process to recognize our union. And there's a big rally on March 1. Does that mean we're going on strike? Well, that really depends on the administration.
Congratulations to SENS for winning a tentative agreement with lots of advancements. (As with the contract we will collectively bargain, the decision of whether it’s good enough is in the hands of the members through a ratification vote.)
In the late afternoon of strike day 3, our Bargaining Committee reached a long awaited tentative agreement with The New School. The groundbreaking tentative agreement includes:
“I’m incredibly excited and hopefully this will start a national trend of full-time, non-tenure track faculty unionization,” says
@uaw7902
President Zoe Carey to
@TheChiefLeader
’s
@deefreemank
of our groundbreaking election agreement.
Thank you President
@ShawnFainUAW
and all our
@UAW
siblings for your solidarity. We’re proud of the groundbreaking election agreement we won, and now we’re excited to vote yes and bargain collectively to improve our jobs and job security.
On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, we honor the 146 garment workers who died in 1911, and we stand with our fellow academic workers
@GSOCUAW
in their fight for a fair contract today.
The graduate workers in
@GSOCUAW
are in the midst of a strike vote to pressure the administration to bargain reasonably and come to a fair contract. In the windows of the 7th floor, just below where workers jumped 110 years ago, they have a message: "Vote yes to strike."
On Thursday, the NYU Adjuncts Union (ACT-UAW) will begin negotiating their new contract. While the bargaining committee raise demands at the table, we’ll be raising our voices in support of their efforts to secure more economic justice at NYU!
@UAW7902
@GSOCUAW
@nyuydsa
@aaup_nyu
Why does
@aansari86
, an industry assistant Professor at Tandon, want a union? Because he wants better wages and benefits, job security, transparency and parity, research support, and visa and immigration support for international faculty. A majority of NYU contract faculty agree.
BREAKING:
@AFTunion
President
@rweingarten
stands with us and urges
@nyuniversity
president to "Leave the decision where it belongs—in the hands of contract faculty—and agree on a fair process to verify majority support for the union." Join her:
“People want to be part of a fighting union.” … “Joining the UAW at this moment is something that academic workers like us are like banging down the doors to do,” Remes said.
By my latest count, there are over 45,000 grad and undergrad workers who have publicly moved to unionize since the start of 2022 and are at various stages of the organizing process from card collecting to negotiating their first contract.
Meet Shelby Wardlaw, who is, like us, full time non-tenure track faculty at Rutgers. With her union,
@ruaaup
, she won a longer term and presumptive renewal, which means she’ll never have to apply for her job again. That’s the power of collective bargaining. Vote UNION YES today.
We were thrilled to join our union siblings on the
@WGAEast
picket line today. Pictured here are NYU workers and students from Tisch, FAS, and Gallatin.
Solidarity with our
@nyuresearchers
colleagues and siblings. We stand with you as our mutual bosses delay and we look forward to your winning your case and your contract. NYU is a union campus!
NYU can hire as many expensive lawyers to flood the record and try to discredit us as they want. Nothing can change the fact that NYU is a union campus and NYURU - UAW will be a part of that.
Good morning to our colleagues, who today get to vote UNION YES.
Come out to vote today starting at 8am at Kimmel (room 405-406) or 5 Metrotech (room LC 400). You can vote tomorrow also, but it will be raining so why not do it today.
Congratulations to
#nyucas2023
grads! We’re proud to have taught you and have received your solidarity. You and we both know that your learning conditions have been our working conditions.
Contract faculty are the fastest growing type of professor at
@nyuniversity
, and the confusion about what we are (answer: full time, non-tenure track faculty) is part of why the administration likes us so much--to obscure their end-run around tenure. We explain it here:
“I think a lot of workers lately have come to realize that unions are not just for people who wear hardhats or work in plants or in black and white photos from the thirties. Unions are for everybody.”
“NYU’s Non-Tenured Faculty Rally for a Union: They make up half of NYU’s full-time professors, and they want living wages and academic freedom.”
@hyperallergic
’s
@_elainevelie
reports on our rally and our movement.
We stand in solidarity with
@GWCUAW
! We all deserve the protections of a union contract. No university could function without the labor of student workers--please consider donating to the hardship fund organized by Columbia undergrads.