As part of ACT-UAW Local 7902, New School Part-Time Faculty stand in solidarity with our Academic Student Worker colleagues who are ON STRIKE starting today after the university failed to meet their strike deadline with an acceptable contract deal. The furtherance of economic justice is a core value for our union and […]
Yearly Archives: 2024
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After bargaining until nearly five in the morning, the University has dug in its heels on equalizing healthcare across Masters and PhDs. They will not move on this issue, giving the union no choice but to strike. Forcing the union to wait nearly three hours, from 2AM onward, just to […]
In our last bargaining session with The New School, we finally managed to reach tentative agreement on nine non-economic articles, including: Article VI: Meeting Space: We have increased the number of membership meetings that the union can schedule. Article X: Management Rights: No change from the last contract. Article XI: […]
Before our first session of the new year we received word from the University that they were ‘refreshing’ their approach to bargaining and bringing on a new lead negotiator, Pete Jones, who handled SHENS negotiations. We were optimistic about this news and came into the session expecting to receive proposals […]