National Organization of Legal Service Workers (NOLSW) UAW Region 6, Local 2320 members in Oregon were on the picket line earlier this week for their lunchtime practice picket after unanimously authorizing to strike. Members are fighting for their dignity, respect, and for a job that is sustainable.
Region 9A Director Brandon Mancilla and Local 2325 supports the emergency rally for striking CAMBA IT Department workers.
CAMBA just announced plans to eliminate its entire IT departments, which would include workers who have been on strike for over eight weeks. This is blatant retaliation against workers who organized for dignity, fair pay, and a voice on the job.
UAW Region 4, Local 2320 Immigrant Justice Workers United Unit gathered in office to deliver a letter in solidarity to the Executive Director, requesting that our Coordinators, Legal Fellows, and additional staff be recognized as members of UAW National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW).
A supermajority of the workers has signed Union cards and want to fight for better wages and working conditions, standing in solidarity with their Union siblings.
Give your solidarity and support to our newest members seeking voluntary recognition to be included in the existing Immigrant Justice Workers United bargaining unit.
Justice for those who seek justice for others!
UAW Region 2B, Local 2320 National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW) newly organized unit Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE), a nonprofit law firm supporting low-income people.
The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (AFPA) provides clerical and administrative support for the officers and members of AFPA filed an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) against the officers of AFPA for bargaining in bad faith. During negotiations prior to a labor dispute that lasted from October 16th through 18th of 2024. The company stated that the members’ health insurance cost share would remain unchanged. In November of 2024 the chairperson was notified that the cost share would be doubled effective January of 2025.
Effects-Bargaining was requested and held once with the company refusing to return to the table. The ULP was filed on April 24, 2025. Then settled on October 1, 2025, with the company reverting back to original health insurance cost share and the members being reimbursed.
The United Auto Workers announced today the ratification of the contract with New York University which covers over 1200 graduate employees, members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee-UAW Local 2110, who perform various functions for the university including teaching and research. Once again, this makes NYU the only private university in the country with a unionized graduate employee workforce. The agreement was ratified by 99% of the membership, with nearly 1,000 members voting.
“This contract is a major step forward for our members,” said Julie Kushner, Director of UAW Region 9A. “They did not back down after being stripped of their bargaining rights in 2005.Their commitment to justice will have a huge impact on the working lives of teaching and research assistants throughout the university. This victory has already inspired other private sector graduate employees to organize.”
The agreement made substantial gains in wages, health care, including a 90% subsidy towards individual coverage and first time support for dependent coverage, childcare benefits and tuition waivers. In addition, it doubles the starting wage to $20 per hour over the life of the five-year agreement for workers at NYU’s Polytechnic School of Engineering, who perform and support cutting edge research. (Greater detail is appended below.)
“This contract will make a real difference in our lives here at NYU and will raise the bar for private sector graduate working people nationally,” said Lily Defriend, a Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department. “Right here in New York City our campaign and this contract win have contributed to graduate employees at Columbia and The New School organizing at the UAW.”
After being the first group of private university graduate workers to successfully unionize in 2000, the UAW won a groundbreaking contract at NYU. In 2005 the university withdrew recognition, hiding behind a Bush-era NLRB decision stripping graduate employees of the right to collective bargaining. Undeterred, the workers at NYU fought an eight-year battle for recognition and the university agreed to recognize the UAW once again subject to an election, in which they remained neutral, conducted by the American Arbitration Association. The workers voted 98.4% in favor of being represented by the UAW in December 2013.
The UAW represents more than 45,000 academic workers across the U.S., including graduate employees at the University of Massachusetts, University of Connecticut, University of Washington, University of California and California State University.
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