New York City– Tuesday evening, a tentative agreement was reached between Student Employees of the New School (SENS) UAW and The New School on behalf of 700 Academic Student Workers. After fifteen months of bargaining, SENS UAW agreed to unanimously recommend this agreement to their membership in the following statement. (https://www.facebook.com/SENSUAW/) Highlights of the tentative
The National Labor Relations Board voted on Wednesday to consider the case of graduate students at the New School who are trying to form a union. The decision to review an official’s July ruling that blocked the case could signal a willingness by the board to overturn a 2004 precedent, in a case at Brown
Today’s decision by the National Labor Relations Board is a tremendous victory for the UAW and our members, graduate student employees at Columbia University and at New School University. For more than a decade the UAW has fought relentlessly alongside graduate student employees in private universities to win the right to bargain collectively. Earlier this