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NYU Contract Faculty United will now officially represent hundreds of contract faculty at NYU, following a Feb. 28 vote where over 500 faculty expressed support for the union. The majority vote makes the union the largest on-campus representative for full-time, untenured professors at any private university in the country, according to a union press release. ...

NYU has had a somewhat rocky relationship with labor organizations on campus over the past few years. When its graduate student union demanded higher wages in 2021, the university did not give in to its demands until after the group went on strike for three weeks. In 2022, NYU’s adjunct faculty union came close to...

NYU Contract Faculty United, the union representing hundreds of contract faculty at the university, recently signed an agreement with administrators that allows the group to vote on whether it should be represented by a single union — the next step in its efforts for recognition. The Jan. 3 agreement states that union recognition for CFU-UAW,...

NYU’s researcher union filed a petition for recognition with the National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday, and also delivered over 2,700 authorization cards signed by union members to the federal agency. The move comes after NYU rejected the group’s initial demand for union status and told researchers to take their concerns to the NLRB.  The...

NYU said it is “unable to voluntarily recognize” NYU Researchers United, the union representing more than 2,000 researchers at the university, in a letter to the group this past Tuesday. The response comes after demands for recognition from NYU president Linda Mills over two weeks ago. According to the letter, which was signed by an...

Dozens of NYU researchers called for union recognition on Thursday, in a letter delivered outside university president Linda Mills’ office in Bobst Library. The protest marked the first time the union, NYU Researchers United, asked the university for recognition. The letter — signed by over 210 researchers including postdoctoral researchers and graduate assistants — called...

Writing Faculty United (WFU), the union that represents University Writing Specialists and advisors, was given the right to join Faculty Forward by the National Labor Review Board (NLRB) at a two-day hearing in May. The union’s victory comes after Provost Katherine Baicker sent WFU an email on May 10, 2023, denying their request for voluntary...

The majority of the around 4,000 researchers at NYU, including Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows, have signed authorization cards to form a union after ongoing efforts since May 2020.  Last month, the university announced that it is raising the minimum salary for postdoctoral fellows at NYU

Members of NYU labor unions, including contract faculty and researchers, reinforced their demands for recognition at a Labor Day parade Saturday morning, just a few blocks away from Bryant Park. NYU Contract Faculty United, the union representing contract faculty on campus, and NYU Researchers Un

WFU, representing social sciences core writing advisors, humanities core writing specialists, Little Red Schoolhouse lectors, and writing and research advisors, calls for job security, better pay and benefits, and transparency.