On April 22nd, The New School filed a Request for Review with the Regional Labor Board in an attempt to wage another legal battle against SENS-UAW and claim that we are not workers with the right to unionize. Instead of respecting the outcome of the election as we had hoped […]
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It’s official! We get to vote for SENS-UAW as our union on May 3rd and 4th, 2017. CLICK HERE TO PLEDGE TO VOTE YES FOR SENS-UAW We have huge, exciting news! The regional National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) just announced the dates for our election on unionization for May 3rd and 4th. This quick legal victory means we […]
Great news! The National Labor Relations Board has just issued a decision on our unionization petition. They have remanded the case back to the regional NLRB to take “further appropriate action consistent with Columbia University,” referring to the August decision affirming the right to collective bargaining for RAs and TAs. […]
Despite a strong National Labor Relations Board ruling affirming the union rights of student assistants at private universities, in the Columbia case, the New School continues to ignore our choice to unionize and disregard the consistent support we have repeatedly shown for SENS-UAW. The NLRB also has not yet taken […]
HUGE NEWS! We just won back our union rights thanks to a sweeping decision today by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Yes WE ARE WORKERS! The NLRB just ruled on GWC-UAW’s case at Columbia University restoring collective bargaining rights for graduate employees in private universities. We expect the NLRB […]
NLRB Grants Review of our Case! The National Labor Relations Board formally granted review of our case, which we hope will overturn the Brown decision. This is great news for graduate employees who have committed years of organizing to win back our right to collective bargaining. While this is a […]
The National Labor Relation’s Board Regional Director has made a decision on our case to re-establish the legal right to collective bargaining for student workers at private universities. While our petition was dismissed, because of precedence set by the federal board in the 2004 Brown University decision, we remain optimistic […]
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Legal briefs have been filed by our Union and the University with the NLRB regional director as of June 1. Based on evidence presented in the recent hearings, we argue that the NLRB should overturn the 2004 Brown decision and re-establish the legal right to collective bargaining for student workers […]
As we hurtle toward the end of the semester, and the country roils with grief and anger over more racist police murders, your minds are likely preoccupied with many things. Ours too — we just want to give a brief update about the state of your Union: Student Employees at […]