UPDATES
Your chance to vote for your union, February 27-28
On Monday when our colleagues Karla Rodriguez and Anne DeWitt wrote to you about the upcoming union election on February 27 and 28, the NYU administration was still in the process of finalizing some logistical details. Today we are excited to share with you the full...
We have election dates! On February 27-28, Vote Union Yes
Share why you’re planning to vote Union YES Tuesday, 2/27 and Wednesday, 2/28! Through hundreds of conversations and support from a majority of us over many years, NYU Contract Faculty have expressed our challenges with increasing workload, insufficient recognition,...
Campaign updates and next Town Hall Friday 2/9!
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...
CFU Virtual Town Hall – Fri. 1/19, 1:00 pm
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...
Important Update – We Have a Historic Union Election Agreement!
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...
Come celebrate 2023, the year we built our collective power
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...
CFU Planning Assembly TOMORROW, Fri. 11/17 at 12:00 pm
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...
Crucial CFU-UAW Planning Assembly this Friday 10/20!
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...
Practice Picket with SAG-AFTRA & WGA; CFU Planning Assembly 9/29
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...
Let everyone know: NYU is a union campus!
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...