NYU, grad student union reach agreement on wage hike, benefits
Source: Aljazeera
by Rebecca Nathanson
NEW YORK — New York University and the school’s graduate student union — the only one in the country recognized by a private college — came to a tentative contract agreement early Tuesday morning on wages, health care, child care and tuition remission after about a year of tense negotiations.
The university’s compromise with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC), the graduate employee union of teaching and research assistants, averted a strike planned for Tuesday through Friday. While union members and supporters held signs reading “GSOC on strike” and lined the hallway leading to the bargaining session room, NYU’s negotiators and the union’s bargaining committee members spent five hours ironing out the agreement, which they reached at about 1:30 a.m.
Last year NYU became the only private university in the country with a recognized graduate employee union — a distinction it had once before, from 2001 through 2005. However, using a 2004 National Labor Relations Board decision stating that graduate employees at Brown University were primarily students, not workers, the administration refused to negotiate a new contract when the GSOC’s original agreement expired.
The university maintained that stance until the fall of 2013, when it approached Detroit-based union United Autoworkers (UAW) — which represented the NYU graduate students even in the years when they weren’t recognized by the administration — with an offer to hold a union election.
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