Hundreds Show Solidarity (NYU grad employee strike)

[Bill McBlueState]

Hundreds Show Solidarity

January 27, 2006
A rally yesterday drew nearly 350 from the ranks of students to city politicians to union officials in support of the continuing graduate assistant strike, despite the Graduate Student Organizing Committee’s diminished presence in front of the Bobst Library in recent weeks.

The large presence of non-NYU labor unions, students from other colleges and local residents at the rally underscored GSOC’s goal to portray the strike as an issue affecting more than just the NYU community.

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City Councilwoman Christine Quinn and Transit Workers Union President Roger Toussaint spoke at the rally, in addition to representatives of labor unions such as Communications Workers of America, Unite Here and the United Auto Workers union that represented NYU’s graduate students under their former contract.

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On Tuesday, NYU issued letters to several GAs indicating that their stipends would be cut for two semesters. GAs began striking Nov. 9 following the university’s refusal to negotiate with their union, United Auto Workers Local 2110.

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