BIG
NEWS! GSOC/UAW Local 2110 Demands
Union Recognition for NYU Graduate Employees |
NY
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and Congressman
Jerrold Nadler joined GSOC members and other UAW and
Local 2110 representatives to demand voluntary recognition
of the union on April 26. |
Congressman
Jerrold Nadler and City Council Speaker Christine
Quinn joined a rally at NYU on April 26 for Teaching
and Research Assistants seeking the right to unionize.
In April of 2000, graduate employees at NYU won a
ground-breaking election to form the first graduate
employee union at a private university - GSOC/UAW
Local 2110. After the Bush administration appointed
an anti-union National Labor Relations Board, the
university withdrew union recognition. Despite this
setback,GSOC continued to organize and fight for its
union rights. With a newly constituted Labor Board
appointed by President Obama, we are confident that
GSOC will regain its collective bargaining rights.
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Tenement
Museum Educators Organizing to Join Local 2110
Museum
Educators, who lead tours and discussion groups at the Lower East
Side Tenement Museum, are organizing to join Local 2110 and are
facing an anti-union campaign at the Museum. Find
out more about the campaign, and how you can help.
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