UPDATES
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...
Support our Contract Fight This Week!
Support Our Contract Fight This Week! Your support is crucial right now as we secure the contract we deserve. The administration must see our solidarity as the school year ends. Actions You Can Take This Week: Observe Bargaining on Friday, April 18, 11:00 am - 2:00...
CFU fights back
The news is coming fast and furious these days, and it’s hard to keep track of the mounting attacks on higher education, whether they’re coming from Washington or the 12th floor of Bobst. But it can also be tough to keep track of all the ways we have to fight back....
Some progress, some distance, one sticking point.
We began our ninth bargaining session with the NYU administration by passing them our petition with thirty pages of signatures. A majority of contract faculty in our bargaining unit are standing together for a contract that protects our academic freedom — and our...
We need better than AMI
Haven’t signed the academic freedom petition yet? Join a majority of your colleagues and sign today. Last Monday, we all got a troubling email from Linda Mills and Martin Dorph warning of austerity ahead — even before NYU has lost any revenue. It highlighted a big...
CFU Bargaining Update – Session 8 (March 7, 2025)
On Friday we held our 8th bargaining session with the administration. We’ve now been bargaining with the administration for about 4 months. We’ve presented all of our major non-economic proposals. (Remember, you can find all proposals and counter proposals on...
Defend academic freedom at NYU — sign the petition today
On Saturday, our elected Bargaining Committee wrote to all of us describing a disappointing bargaining session. “The tone of our conversation was civil,” they told us, “but it was clear that we will all need to keep working to show the NYU administration why these...
Happy Anniversary CFU-UAW! Birthday cake is great, but organizing with your union is even better. 🎉
One year ago, contract faculty from across NYU voted UNION YES by an overwhelming majority. By organizing to protect and improve our jobs, we won the largest union of full-time, non-tenure track professors at any private university in the country. And we won big...
CFU Bargaining Update – Session 7 (February 20, 2025)
Since the start of fall semester, NYU administrators have been asking the university community to trust them and to “rest assured” that they’re working tirelessly behind the scenes. At the bargaining table, we’ve invited them to treat our contract negotiations as an...
Stand up, turn out, and sign on to defend our profession
We don’t usually ask you to do three different things in the same email. But the threats to higher education are such that we all need to do a little more. There are three important steps you can take this week to defend our profession and the future of higher ed...