ACT-UAW

While ACT-UAW faculty members cannot strike in sympathy, we continue to donate time and funds, form support organizations, and honor the picket line.

	Quick Links Sign the letter to NYU President Sexton in support of GSOC >> GSOC-UAW Strike Center >> Faculty Democracy (NYU faculty support organization) >> GSOC Strike Fund >>

While ACT-UAW faculty members cannot strike in sympathy, we are showing our support in many ways - see How To Help below. We continue to donate time and funds, form support organizations, and honor the GSOC picket line. The UAW and other unions are working at all levels of the labor movement to increase pressure on the administration to bargain a fair contract with GSOC.

Background: NYU's hard-line position against GSOC/UAW is of serious concern to all academic workers. GSOC/UAW Local 2110 represents NYU's graduate teaching assistants. Under the Clinton administration, the National Labor Relations Board gave the NYU grad students the right to form a union protected by law. The administration of George W. Bush has taken that right away, and now NYU is using the reversal as a way to refuse to recognize and bargain with GSOC/UAW. After their contract expired on August 31, 2005, GSOC/UAW took a strike vote. With a majority of GSOC members voting, 85% voted yes to strike for a second contract. The strike at NYU started on Wednesday, November 9.

	How To Help Donate to the GSOC Hardship Fund. The striking workers are facing the loss of their pay for the spring semester; the Hardship Fund helps members cover basic expenses. Checks can be made to "UAW Local 2110", with "GSOC Hardship Fund" in the memo line, and mailed to: UAW Local 2110, 113 University Place 5th Floor, NYC, NY 10003. You can also make a donation online: Click here to donate >> Sign the letter from scholars to NYU President Sexton in support of GSOC >> Move your classes and events off campus this semester to respect the picket line. Our willingness last fall to teach classes off campus was a crucial part of GSOC's message to NYU: there will be no business as usual on campus until NYU negotiates with GSOC. Email classmove@2110uaw.org for help finding classroom space >> Get help finding event space >> Join GSOC on the picket lines to show your support. Picketing usually takes place on weekdays from 9am-1pm in front of Bobst Library. Latest picket schedule >> Do not do the graduate assistants' work, and do not succumb to pressure from the administration to hire replacements for these striking workers. Doing so will prolong the strike. GSOC is committed to undergraduate education, and the security of a fair contract has proven to make the graduate assistants better teachers.