Opinion: NYU’s approach to unionization is getting old
The university’s contract faculty union recently reached an agreement with NYU that will allow it to vote to be formally recognized, but the university’s interactions with other on-campus labor groups still leave something to be desired.
Molly Koch, Opinion Editor
• January 24, 2024
Opinion: NYU should recognize the researchers union
Researchers at NYU deserve more benefits and support from the university. The first step is recognition.
Valentina Plevisani, Deputy Opinion Editor
• November 3, 2023
‘They’re filthy’: Tisch adjuncts raise concerns over tiny teaching spaces
Adjunct professors at Tisch delivered a petition to the school’s dean on Tuesday, after months of calling on NYU to provide them with new practice rooms due to health and safety concerns.
Adrianna Nehme, Abby Wilson and Yezen Saadah
• May 5, 2023
Union leaders from NYU and NYC look to the future of labor
Representatives from unions on and off campus discussed the labor movement’s present struggles and future hopes at an NYU panel on Nov. 15.
Tori Morales, Deputy News Editor
• November 16, 2022
Students, faculty celebrate adjunct union’s tentative contract
Labor unions at NYU gathered in celebration of the adjunct union’s new tentative agreement with the university at Schwartz Plaza on Friday, Nov. 4.
Kayla Hardersen, Senior Staff Writer
• November 7, 2022
Editorial: NYU’s adjunct union tentative contract shouldn’t have taken this long
NYU and its adjunct union have finally reached a tentative agreement, but it took a threat to strike to get there.
WSN Editorial Board
• November 2, 2022
The NYU adjunct union contract expires tonight. Here’s what may happen next.
The university’s adjunct faculty contract will expire at midnight on Oct. 31. A strike has been authorized, but it is only one of multiple possible outcomes for the labor dispute.
Carmo Moniz and Tori Morales
• October 31, 2022
Guest Essay: The United Auto Workers needs reform. Here’s how we do it.
Three members of academic worker unions from three New York City colleges argue for their parent union to take on a sectoral organizing strategy.
Urmila Mohan, Tamar Samir and Paul Brown
• October 28, 2022
Opinion: Adjuncts need better pay now, but NYU is dragging its feet
NYU should meet the proposals of the adjunct union, ACT-UAW Local 7902 — if not in support of worker's rights, then in the name of its students.
Valentina Plevisani, Staff Writer
• September 19, 2022
A letter to President Hamilton: Adjunct faculty are essential to NYU
More than a thousand members of ACT-UAW Local 7902, the union representing adjunct professors at NYU, have written a collective letter to President Andrew Hamilton emphasizing their role at the university as they bargain for a new contract.
NYU Adjunct Faculty
• May 17, 2022
Editorial: Support graduate student union strikes
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.
WSN Editorial Board
• November 8, 2021
GSOC Protests for Paid Family Leave in Bobst
Sakshi Venkatraman, News Editor
• March 9, 2018
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