UPDATES
Bargaining update August 7: We demand fair pay, they assault shared governance
Watch Tom Hill (SPS) and Kathleen McDermott (Tandon) describe Thursday’s bargaining session. Contract faculty are half the full-time faculty at NYU — yet by our estimate we earn, on average, only 64 cents on the tenure-track dollar. At our last bargaining session, we...
We’re Ready to Fight for Fair Pay
I hope the summer has been nice to you and that you're holding up okay considering the world right now. This is a bit long, but please read. It's all super important. I’ve been helping to organize our union for years, and since November I’ve been to almost all the...
Update on 2026 Contract Faculty AMI Pool
Good news: just like last year, we’ve reached agreement with the NYU administration on the 2026 Annual Merit Increase (AMI) pool for contract faculty. We can confirm that our AMI pool will be at parity with tenured faculty and administered according to the same...
CFU Bargaining Update, June 25
Watch Tandon’s Vikram Duvvuri and Nursing’s Richard Dorritie’s video about Wednesday’s bargaining session. On June 25, we held the 13th bargaining session with the NYU administration as we fight for the strong first contract we need and deserve. The main news is that...
Complete the Workload Survey & Save the Date for Summer Actions!
Click here to fill out our Workload Survey We know that addressing overwork is a major bargaining priority. As we prepare to bargain over workload later this summer, please take a moment to complete our survey and share your experience and insight. Your responses...
CFU Bargaining Update — May 28, 2025
We’ve all had this type of student: they may skim the reading and rush through the assignments, but they sure do enjoy talking in class. That’s what yesterday’s bargaining session — our twelfth since we started in November — felt like. RSVP to observe bargaining...
AI and the Attack on Universities
As the semester winds down, many of us are facing questions about generative AI, whether because we’re reading essays written by it, or news articles written about it. As we look forward to the next bargaining session on May 28, we’re still waiting for the...
CFU Bargaining Update – Session 11 (May 2, 2025)
Click here to watch Bargaining Committee member Elisabeth Fay and Organizing Committee member Mark Braley describe Friday’s bargaining session and what we need to do next. On Friday, we met with the administration’s bargaining team for three hours — our eleventh...
RSVP to attend our bargaining town hall this Tuesday, April 22, from 7-8 pm
At our second-to-last spring session, we made some progress on provisions that will increase transparency, improve job security and due process rights, protect our health and safety, and ensure that we’re able to service our contract effectively. However, the...
Bargaining update 10: When members turn out, lawyers perk up
RSVP to attend our bargaining town hall this Tuesday, April 22, from 7-8 pm. At our second-to-last spring session, we made some progress on provisions that will increase transparency, improve job security and due process rights, protect our health and safety, and...