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GSOC STRIKE INFO 2005-2006 |
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GSOC strike began on Wednesday, November 9, 2005. Hundreds of classes
and sections were cancelled, and still hundreds more were moved off-campus
by faculty members in a showing of solidarity. Despite widespread support
from NYU faculty, staff and undergrads, as well as the broader community
and the national labor movement, the NYU administration continues to refuse
to come to the bargaining table.
Faced with the massive disruption and pressure of our strike, the NYU administration has resorted to outright threats and intimidation, which would have been unlawful under the pre-Bush National Labor Relations Act. President John Sexton sent a letter to the NYU community, threatening any graduate assistant who did not return to work by December 5 with the loss of future employment. President Sexton was forced to push back this deadline after his office was flooded with letter and calls of protest. In spite of the university's threats, GSOC members are determined to win a fair second contract. As the spring semester came to a close, GSOC members voted to suspend the strike for the summer, and we are continuing to organize new members this fall to prepare for future actions. |
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2110 UAW, 113 University Place, 5th floor, New York, NY 10003
ph: 212.387.0220 fax: 212.228.0198 gsoc@2110uaw.org |
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| for GSOC members: |
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College Art Association supports GSOC strike. Click here for a letter of support from the TAA/AFT 3220 at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Click here to view a resolution passed in support of our strike at the AAUP. Click here to view a number of departmental resolutions regarding the NYU administration's threats against striking graduate employees. Letters to John Sexton from prominent scholars and citizens have been pouring in, particularly over the last few days. Click here to view a list of some of the faculty who have expressed their opposition to NYU's unionbusting and threats against strikers. Click here to view the online petition to President Sexton from prominent scholars across the country, urging NYU to enter into negotiations with GSOC. Click here to go to the Faculty Democracy website. For International Students: click here for a memo regarding immigration status and funding issues. Wondering what to say to your students, faculty and colleagues about the strike? Click here for tips. Click here to download a contact form for your students who would like to get on the GSOC mailing list. |
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You can support GSOC by signing the faculty neutrality letter. |
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Click here to read a letter to NYU parents, from GSOC. Click here to read the op-ed from Faculty Democracy in the Washington Square News, a group of hundreds of NYU faculty who are supporting GSOC, in response to President Sexton's letter to parents of undergrads. |
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Click here to get on GSOC's mailing list, to stay up-to-date on what is going on with the union and what you can do to help. Click here to read the Faculty Democracy op-ed in the WSN in response to the Sexton/McLaughlin letter to students. Click here to download a flyer with information about GSOC. |
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NYU President John Sexton (john.sexton@nyu.edu; 212.998.2345). Tell him
to respect the work of graduate employees by bargaining a fair contract
with GSOC/Local 2110 UAW.
Click here to donate money to the GSOC strike hardship fund so that we can keep fighting as long as it takes to win a fair contract. |
| for the press: |
| Press
Advisory: November 9 Press Advisory: November 14 |
| GSOC strike links: |