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A girl with a pink umbrella watches an ongoing picket line. There is a blue U.A.W. sign in the background.

New School student workers reach agreement, end strike

The union representing student workers at The New School reached a three-year contract with the university following months of demands for improved health care benefits and higher wages.
Adrianna Nehme and Bruna Horvath March 11, 2024

The union representing over 500 student workers at The New School reached a verbal tentative agreement with the university following a bargaining session Friday, ending the group’s...

The facade of The New School's Fifth Avenue building at night. Letters behind large windows spell out the university's name and the lights of passing cars are blurred.

New School student workers fighting for union recognition

Hundreds of non-unionized student workers at the university are calling for recognition under its student worker union.
Yezen Saadah, News Editor September 6, 2023

A group of hundreds of student workers at The New School are calling for the university to consider them union employees after being excluded from the school’s existing student...

A group of rally attendees stand in front of Columbia University’s Alma Mater statue. A cardboard sign with blue text reads “N.Y.U. R.A.s. Stand With C.U.R.A.”

Columbia RAs take to president’s mansion, demand union recognition

Dozens of students and resident assistants gathered at Columbia University on Monday, Feb. 20 in protest of the university’s refusal to recognize the RAs’ union.
Yezen Saadah, News Editor February 22, 2023

Resident assistants and students at Columbia University rallied in front of the residence of the university’s president, Lee Bollinger, on Monday, Feb. 20 to demand that the...

This week, NYU TAs may stop teaching in protest. Sick-Out NYU released a list of demands for NYU administration to address in order to provide for students and workers.
(Photo by Jessica Francis)

Teaching Assistants Plan a ‘Sick-Out’ Strike

Members of Sick-Out NYU plan to take a three-day strike to advocate for graduate students’ rights during the pandemic.
Nick Mead, Deputy News Editor May 4, 2020

NYU Teaching Assistants plan to collectively take three consecutive sick days starting Wednesday, May 6 to demonstrate their essential role at the university and protest NYU’s...

The Fight for $15 continues with a rally through Times Square and an appearance from Governor Andrew Cuomo.

NYC Fight for $15 Global Day of Action

Rebecca Oh, Staff Writer April 14, 2016
The fight for a Union and $15 minimum wage for all workers continues at another Global Day of Action in Times Square.
University's Wage Raises Have to Come From Somewhere

University’s Wage Raises Have to Come From Somewhere

Richard Shu, Opinion Editor March 28, 2016
Though the measures are undoubtedly a boon for student workers, we must all keep in mind that there is no such thing as a free lunch.
Fair pay for NYU student workers

Fair pay for NYU student workers

Ryan Thomas, Student Senator November 23, 2015
Proactively addressing students’ concerns about the affordability of education at NYU will further demonstrate the incoming administration’s commitment to improving the university and ensuring fair compensation.
Campus politics cannot be discounted at NYU

Campus politics cannot be discounted at NYU

Christina Coleburn, Senior Editor November 2, 2015
Students need to begin playing a greater role in campus politics. Every day, decisions that profoundly affect the student body pass by without student say, particularly in recent years.
Haley Quinn, Vishnu Bachani, and Aaron Petykowski (from left to right) of NYU’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) protest in front of the NYU Welcome Center on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015, advocating a raise in student worker pay to $15 an hour.

NYU addresses payroll backlog, student workers still unsatisfied

Thomas Peracchio, Contributing Writer October 22, 2015
A follow-up on the ongoing undergraduate student-worker wage backlog.
SLAM letter calls for fair wages, aid

SLAM letter calls for fair wages, aid

Marita Vlachou, Deputy News Editor November 26, 2014
NYU's SLAM delivered a letter to John Sexton with their demands to improve student debt.