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Clerical and technical workers deliver petition for higher wages to Mills

Dozens of NYU’s clerical and technical staff met at Bobst Library yesterday to deliver a petition to President Linda Mills, calling for higher wages and increased benefits in their union’s new contract with the university.

Yezen Saadah, News Editor • December 14, 2023

Around 30 members of the union representing clerical and technical staff at NYU, UCATS Local 3882, gathered inside Bobst Library on Wednesday afternoon to deliver a petition to...

GSOC authorizes potential strike

More than 96% of participating union members voted to authorize a graduate student worker strike.

Trace Miller and Rachel Fadem • April 12, 2021

Members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee voted to authorize a strike, with 96.4% of participating union members voting to approve the potential action. The results...

Wages Increase as Union Ratifies Six-Year Contract With NYU

Kenneth Jung, Contributing Writer • January 31, 2018

The Union of Clerical, Administrative, and Technical Staff Local 3882 (UCATS), which represents over 1,400 NYU employees has passed changes to the contract signed with NYU in December. The changes include wage increases, paid parental leave, insurance, and perfect attendance bonuses.

End Minimum Wage Bickering with Cost of Living Adjustments

Akshay Prabhushankar, Staff Writer • April 8, 2016

The minimum wage has actually lost purchasing power in recent decades, resulting in much undue strain on workers. Indexing the minimum wage to inflation and a city’s cost of living can drastically reduce this stress, and help eliminate a metric where America lags behind its Western counterparts.

McDonald’s should take a wage hike

WSN Editorial Board • April 6, 2015

McDonald's recent wage increases are encouraging, but not enough to increase quality of life for minimum wage workers.