As NYU contract faculty, we are coming together to bargain collectively with New York University and build our political voice as educators and researchers whose work sustains this institution. We are joining the thousands of academic workers at Columbia and The New School who are seeking to secure a better future through collective bargaining, and we are part of a growing movement in private institutions like Barnard, BU, Tufts, and Fordham, where unionized contract faculty have negotiated meaningful improvements to salary, benefits, and working conditions.
Without collective bargaining, we have experienced stagnant salaries, increasing workloads, vanishing benefits, threats to job security, and a lack of transparency in administrative policies. If our benefits and working conditions are secured in a collective bargaining agreement, NYU cannot change the terms of our employment without our consent. As employees across NYU, we have formed a union in order to improve our working conditions and to make the university a more equitable and accessible institution for teaching, research, and learning.
HEAR FROM A FEW OF US ON WHY WE ARE FORMING OUR UNION
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Throughout higher education, faculty are being turned into contingent workers. Here's the story of a group of contract faculty at @nyuniversity seeking to organize union with @CfuUaw to protect their jobs and livelihoods. @BurnesCenter's @PowerAtWorkBlog: https://poweratwork.us/nyu-contract-faculty-union
Quickly becoming a @HannahGurman superfan — if you missed her excellent speech at last week's Triangle Fire Commemoration, catch her breaking down @cfuuaw's fight for recognition here (~38:00): https://wbai.org/archive/program/episode/?id=39315
So true! We love being a part of the educational experience of students at Western! https://twitter.com/CfuUaw/status/1640417399576104960
Our union drive “isn't happening because people hate their jobs,” our Lane Anderson tells @PowerAtWorkBlog. “People mostly love this job, and they want to keep it and make it sustainable too.” https://poweratwork.us/nyu-contract-faculty-union
Our union drive “isn't happening because people hate their jobs,” our Lane Anderson tells @PowerAtWorkBlog. “People mostly love this job, and they want to keep it and make it sustainable too.” https://poweratwork.us/nyu-contract-faculty-union