What is GSOC/UAW Local 2110?

The Teaching and Research Assistant Collective Bargaining Rights Act

GSOC is currently working on a nationwide campaign to support the Teaching and Research Assistant Collective Bargaining Rights Act. This bipartisan legislation would amend the National Labor Relations Act to restore collective bargaining rights to unions of teaching and research assistants at private universities.

The Coalition for Fair Labor at NYU

GSOC supports the Coalition for Fair Labor at NYU campaign to ensure that NYU signs a Code of Conduct for the treatment of workers at its international branch campuses, including the new NYU-Abu Dhabi. Sign the petition to help ensure that workers' rights will be respected on ALL NYU campuses.

GSOC is the union for teaching, research and graduate assistants at New York University. As the chosen representative of the majority of NYU graduate employees, GSOC/UAW (the Graduate Student Organizing Committee) is committed to restoring collective bargaining rights to our membership and forcing NYU to recognize our union once again.

In 2002, GSOC/UAW Local 2110 because the first union representing teaching and research assistants at a private university. When our contract expired in 2005, the NYU administration hid behind a partisan National Labor Relations Board decision and refused to renegotiate.

After months of discussion and pressure from the NYU community and a six-month long graduate employee strike, the NYU administration continued to defend its poorly reasoned decision to try to bust our union. Although the NYU administration still refuses to recognize our union and NYU TAs and RAs work without the benefit of a union contract, GSOC/UAW remains dedicated to fighting for the rights of its membership to negotiate meaningfully with NYU on issues that matter, including pay, workload protections, healthcare and other benefits. more...