Last week, you were visible with buttons and posters, you engaged your students, you turned out to picket Bobst, and you joined in with the rest of the New York City labor movement at the Triangle Fire Memorial. Most of all, you talked to your colleagues about why you...

UPDATE - We met with NYU’s legal team, now it’s time to take action! I hope you’ve had a restful break — I haven’t, really, but I’m feeling pretty energized! My name is Elisabeth, and I’ve been organizing with our union for a long time. This week, we took a big step...

Student-faculty solidarity begins in your classroom As members of NYU’s adjunct faculty, we were excited to learn that our contract faculty colleagues were unionizing. Last fall, our contract negotiations emphasized the importance of cultivating undergraduate...

Join our CFU Week of Action, Mon. 3/20 - Fri. 3/24 When I tell my students how far I commute to teach, they say “NYU must be paying you crazy money for that!” No, kids, it's the other way around. I live way, way out there because, over a decade of teaching here, my...

We got the administration’s attention -- we need everyone’s participation to keep it! First, a clear majority of NYU contract faculty signed cards saying they want a union. Then, over 500 of us — again, over half — signed their names to a petition telling Andy...

Save the dates for our week of action after Spring Break! We’re still waiting. Andrew Hamilton said he needed some extra time to decide if he was going to do the right thing and agree to a fair process to recognize our union quickly. We’re now in the middle of the...

Andy asked for an extension on doing the right thing On February 22nd, we gave Andrew Hamilton a clear deadline to do the right thing. We told the NYU administration that we expected a response to our petition within seven days. Six days later, they reached out — to...

Unions beyond NYU have our backs! On Wednesday, February 22, we put Andrew Hamilton and the NYU administration in the spotlight with our petition, signed by a majority of us - over 500 contract faculty from around the university - calling on them to do the right thing...

The view from Brooklyn: Why we’re coming together to build our faculty union All across NYU, contract faculty are coming together to tell the administration that we need a union.  Coming together is a key phrase. A union is how we come together with our colleagues,...

We told Andy Hamilton we need a union, and we’ll be waiting for his reply on March 1! For six years, NYU contract faculty have been talking to each other about why we need a union. We’ve been comparing notes, signing cards, and building power in our schools and...