President Van Zandt and Provost Tim Marshall wrote a misleading message to our community regarding the state of our contract negotiations. See our revisions below. – Subject: We corrected DVZ’s message to the community 20 April 2018 To The New School Community, SENS-UAW was pleased to read the recent update […]
Archive: Pre-Contract Blog
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What exactly went down in 2017? Well, after nearly three years of organizing, this year we finally won our union! Here’s our end of year review, which highlights the immense organizing we’ve done, the allies we’ve made, and the fight ahead, one whose challenges we can certainly overcome — as […]
SENS-UAW and allies showed up to Arthur Ashe Stadium last week with balloons, banners and stickers to congratulate the graduating class of 2017 and remind President Van Zandt that We Are Workers!
The good news…our election is only days away, Wednesday, May 3 & Thursday, May 4, and support and excitement is growing. Our commitment to building a union is stronger than ever. We are inspired by the accomplishments of our unionized colleagues at other universities and the part-time faculty here at […]
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 […]
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 […]
You may have seen the letter being circulated, which demands that President David Van Zandt, the administration, and University Board of Directors urgently address the calls for The New School to declare itself a Sanctuary Campus, and take concordant action. Sanctuary demands are critical, but it has already been more […]
On Monday this week President Van Zandt responded to the December 21 letter from SENS-UAW organizers committing to prepare for a strike authorization vote if the administration continued to stall and the NLRB refrained from taking action on our case. While we are encouraged by initial action from the NLRB […]
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 […]