It was great to see so many contract faculty at our informational town hall last week to answer questions about our recent election agreement, hear from other unionized non-tenure track faculty, and discuss next steps. Our next town hall will be Friday, February 9 at...

On January 3rd, we reached a historic election agreement with the NYU administration! This agreement ensures that we’ll be able to vote in a fair and neutral election, and guarantees that if a majority of voters choose UNION YES, the NYU administration will recognize...

Dear Colleagues, Big news! We are excited to announce today that we have reached an agreement with the NYU administration that allows us to vote “YES” for our union!  Yesterday we — contract faculty from across campus — came together in Bobst to sign this historic...

2023 has been a big year for our union: we took our majority support public, and we made our demand for a fair union election impossible for NYU leadership to ignore. Since last March, contract faculty from across NYU have been meeting with the administration’s...

We’ve been meeting with the NYU administration’s lawyers for many months, making steady progress towards reaching a fair agreement so we can vote on unionization. Tomorrow, Friday, November 17, our Planning Assembly will convene at 12:00 pm on Zoom. We’ll review the...

RSVP for our third Planning Assembly this Friday October 20th! We continue to make major steps towards securing a fair election framework to exercise our right to vote on unionization. Thanks to the support across campus, we’ve now made significant progress with the...

It’s strike season! In May, 11,000  Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers went out on strike, demanding that production studios begin sharing some of the massive profits they’ve accumulated — UPDATE: we’d already cued up this email when we got the good news that...

My name is Jacob, and I’m a clinical associate professor in the Gallatin School. I also organize with Contract Faculty United - UAW. It’s been a busy few weeks as the term has started, as we’ve met our newest colleagues and introduced ourselves to our students by...

The union is us, the union is you!  Come help chart CFU’s path to victory Planning Assembly, Sep. 15 noon! The start of the fall semester is always a time for new beginnings—new classes, new students, new colleagues. Of course, our union effort is not new, nor are the...

Happy Labor Day! I’ve been involved in organizing our union for many years, and I have never felt more optimistic about what we can win. This time last year, the NYU administration was ignoring our majority support. Now, they’ve agreed that we have the right to a...