UPDATES

Our adjunct colleagues have been bargaining with the NYU administration since last April. Negotiations come on the heels of a pandemic which has disproportionately burdened part-time faculty, who were not compensated for remote course preparation and were excluded...

On Monday, NYU announced new salary floors for Clinical and Clinical Associate Professors in the Faculty of Arts and Science, just a few days after Barnard Contingent Faculty-UAW announced a tentative collective bargaining agreement. Under the new agreement, all...

We share a call to action from our adjunct colleagues: Join NYU Adjunct’s Union ACT-UAW 7902 for a rally for wage justice. Adjuncts have been in bargaining for three months and our contract is about to expire. Meanwhile, inflation is at eight percent and our wages...

On Thursday, the union for adjuncts at NYU (ACT-UAW) will sit down with the University to begin negotiating their new contract. While our adjunct colleagues raise initial demands at the bargaining table, we’ll be raising our voices in support of their efforts to...

Recent victories by academic workers at Howard University and MIT show that talking to colleagues and building broad support is how we can win our union, and have the power to negotiate meaningful protections, rights and improvements to our working conditions. A...

Omicron has irrevocably disrupted the start of spring semester. Many of our students will be delayed returning to campus. Many of our children will be home because of illness or school closure. Many of us will be sick, quarantining, or caring for loved ones. Many of...

Currently, NYU cuts our benefits without consulting us in advance, and in some cases, without informing us directly. Over the past five years, contract faculty have lost several valuable benefits like tuition remission and green card eligibility. During the pandemic,...

On Wednesday, faculty at the University of Pittsburgh voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the United Steelworkers, with 71% of voters casting ballots in favor of a union. The Pitt Faculty Union, which includes 3,355 full-time and part-time faculty across Pitt’s...

Contract faculty have a number of long-standing priorities concerning workload, salary compression, and job security-- among many others. The pandemic has only exacerbated these issues, and emphasized our exclusion from decision-making over our working conditions. We...

Our union is part of a broader movement to reclaim job security for contract faculty. This week, we write to share more information about how the union helps safeguard our jobs and ensures equitable compensation and benefits.   Currently, we are at-will employees on...