NYU Graduate Students Threaten to Strike

A strike threat hovers over labor talks at New York University this week, more than a year after the school, in a watershed decision, recognized its graduate-student employees as part of a union. Graduate students say the school’s commitment to collective bargaining is ringing hollow, as negotiations that began in 2014 still haven’t led to a contract. To some of them, they are unionized in name only. “The onus is on the administration to avert a labor disruption,” said Natasha Raheja, a teacher and graduate student in the anthropology department, and one of eight students on the union’s bargaining committee. “We hope NYU doesn’t push us.”


・ From The Wall Street Journal