ACT-UAW Local 7902, New York, NY Videos
Videos by ACT-UAW Local 7902 in New York. We're the union of academic workers at NYU and The New School, including NYU adjuncts and New School
NYU Adjunct Faculty get over 2,000 signatures for a Collective Action letter to support saving jobs and asking NYU to honor the contract that they signed last year.
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NYU Adjunct Faculty get over 2,000 signatures for a Collective Action letter to support saving jobs and asking NYU to honor the contract that they signed last year.
NYU- Adjuncts get over 2000 signatures to support saving Adjunct jobs and demanding the university honor the contract that was signed in Nov. 2022!
Sending support & solidarity to our siblings at Rutgers on strike! @rutgersaaup @ruaaup_ptl @rutgersgradsunited We are with you! You will win! Stay strong! Solidarity from the New School Labor Coalition: @aauptns @act_uaw7902 @sens_uaw @newstudentworkersunion @musicians_of_ny @newschoolstudentsenate @onscoalition #1u
We encourage everyone in the New School community of faculty, students, and staff to join the 2 pm Town Hall today called by the students occupying University Center. You can join in person at University Center, or join via Zoom: 🔗 link in bio. Here is the message via @@newschooloccupied - "The students who are currently occupying the University Center celebrate the news of a tentative agreement between the union and the university. It is a massive win of the New School community over the greed and disrespect of the university administration. At the same time, we underscore that this is not the end. The university administration failed, disrespected, and threatened this community. It is naive to think that having reached this agreement after 26 days of strike means that Monday we will go back to business as usual. In this battle, the whole university community came together as never before. This is just the beginning. We invite ALL members of the New School community to show up tomorrow, December 11, at 2PM at the University Center. Call it a celebration, call it a town hall; we need to ask ourselves: what now? Students, part-time faculty, staff, full-time faculty, the admin itself: let’s all come together tomorrow and have a discussion. WE are the New School; it is up to us to decide what happens next. We cannot lose this momentum. Let’s find a way forward together: 2PM at the University Center." #strikeonTNS #youarethenewschool #newschooloccupied
☀️ Good morning! Yesterday, we picketed the New School Board of Trustees on Park Avenue to tell them: 🤡 Don't fool with our healthcare! Board members vote on the university’s budget and it is in their power to restructure their financing to enable 87% of the faculty to have a survivable living wage in one of the most expensive cities in the world. It is the union’s hope that they will be moved to reshape their budget so part-time faculty wages will not be undercut by skyrocketing insurance premiums in the new contract. The trustees can shift the tone in negotiations anytime so that Part-Time Faculty have access to: 1. reliable, affordable healthcare 2. real recourse for discrimination & harassment 3. job security 4. fair wages Art design & production by @n_o_a_h_fischer @ouimaelle @pantero @clarajoybunker @atelierdegeste @laaang @matthewspiegelman #strikeonTNS #strikeonBoT #wellbeback
⚡Strike Day 22! We're told this is now the longest adjunct strike in history. The picket line at the New School is a space of community, reconnection, solidarity, and creativity! ⚡Join us on the picket every day 12 - 3 pm! Thanks to all of our supporters for joining us on the picket line! @studentfacultysolidarity @aauptns @sens_uaw @afterstudio.podcast @newschoolstudentsenate @nsfreepress Photos by @grahammacindoe Animation by @jrosenstudio #strikeonTNS #youarethenewschool #strikeonTNS #youarethenewschool
⚡️Strike Day 19! A behind-the-scenes look at the amazing work of signmaker Olive Panter @pantero — a part-time faculty. Olive Panter is a signpainter and language-based artist with an outward-facing practice, based in communication, expanding the landscape of access, and decolonization. Olive teaches Language and Letterform at the New School. Video sped-up by @jrosenstudio #youarethenewschool #strikeonTNS
Part-time faculty Rebecca Alvin shares her thoughts on the University’s “nontract” and why she’s voting NO! #strikeonTNS #youarethenewschool
Thank you, State Senator Jessica Ramos, (SD13), Chair of Senate Committee on Labor, for visiting us on the picket line today! Solidarity! @__jessicaramos__ @nysenatorramos #strikeonTNS #youarethenewschool #strikesgiving
Strike on TNS: Day 4, Saturday. Join us on the picket line! Today's picketing schedule: 10 am - 1 pm Location: outside Arnold Hall | 55 W. 13th Street (btw 5th and 6th Aves.) Social justice, not a brand! Better treatment we demand @studentfacultysolidarity #youarethenewschool #strikeonTNS
The strike continues! Join us on the picket line Saturday! 10 am - 1 pm. Outside Arnold Hall | 55 W. 13th Street (btw 5th and 6th Aves.) Thank you @studentfacultysolidarity Photo: @grahammacindoe Video by @h.salyer #youarethenewschool #strikeonTNS #strikesgiving
NYU Professor Urmila Mohan and NYU Adjunct organizer Annie Levin discuss the Triangle Shirtwaist Building Fire in 1911 and the memorial that NYU is helping to construct on campus. While NYU contributes to the construction of a memorial honoring the garment workers who died due to terrible labor conditions, the university continues to exploit its adjunct faculty workers. The fire: "In one of the deadliest moments of America’s industrial history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned down, killing 146 workers, on March 25, 1911. The tragedy led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of factory workers. The Triangle factory was located in the top three floors of the 10-story Asch Building in downtown Manhattan. It was a sweatshop in every sense of the word: a cramped space lined with work stations and packed with poor immigrant workers, mostly teenage immigrant women. At the time of the fire, there were 4 elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was fully operational and it could hold only 12 people at a time. There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside to prevent theft by the workers and the other opened inward only. The fire escape was shoddily constructed, and could not support the weight of more than a few women at a time." (source: PDX Retro). Memorial design: "Inspired by mourning ribbons that are placed on structures to show public grief, Uri Wegman and Richard Joon Yoo devised a matte stainless steel "ribbon" that stretches across the front and up the corner of the building as well as a parallel reflective black Stoneglass panel at street level, according to a project proposal. Names of the victims and first-person accounts of the event will be etched into the paneling, and will reflect up onto the underside of the steel ribbon." (source: Architect) #1u #organize
"New adjuncts—who are frequently themselves recent graduates with limited or no prior teaching experience—are thrown in the deep end with little support and left to figure it all out. If we’re lucky, we have peers we can turn to for (unpaid!) advice on effective teaching practices, peeks at their classroom materials, context about the larger curriculum, secret administrative handshakes, and general moral support. But it should be on our program administrators, or paid peer mentors, to provide formal and informal guidance, feedback, and professional development support. That means more than a one-time class observation that may or may not happen and student evaluations that may or may not be used punitively, but rarely constructively. Periodic check-ins with new teachers should happen automatically to see how they're doing and if there’s anything they need, rather than having to bug someone who’s probably already overworked with a torrent of questions and requests. Centralized, standardized resources, like specific grading guidelines and pre-written rubrics, content samples and templates, and clearly articulated expectations for time commitments outside the classroom would take a lot of the burden off overwhelmed part-time faculty who have to individually reinvent the wheel with every class without being fairly compensated." Does this sound familiar? What would you add? #teacherspeak #organize #1u
Hey Part-Time Faculty! Did you know that your pay at The New School has decreased by nearly 18% in real terms over the past four years? In fact, this is the fourth consecutive year that your pay has decreased. Why? While inflation has soared, the part-time faculty have not had the opportunity to negotiate a new union contract since the 2018-19 academic year. This is about to change, but your help is needed! Tomorrow, the bargaining team is presenting the new pay proposal to the university: 11:30 am - 4 pm. This is a very important session and the number of people present and watching is impactful. Please join the bargaining session tomorrow for as long as you're able. Large numbers of faculty watching the negotiations demonstrates to the university we are united in demanding respect, fair pay, benefits, and job security. RSVP at the link in bio to participate. See you tomorrow! #openbargaining #organize #1u
This is Vandana Shiva, an Indian scholar, activist, food sovereignty advocate, and ecofeminist based in Delhi. Her words about our collective, creative power resonate with union organizing principles. "Now the billionaires rule the world. And I call them the 1%, not because they're 1% - they're just a handful. And when you ask me, 'what's the optimism?' For me, the optimism is that a pathetic group of ignorant, selfish men are not more powerful than all the people who occupy [the earth]. People have power. We've been made to think we are inert. We've been made to think nature is inert. And all it is, is a colonization of our mind. The minute we become free and say 'we are part of nature, we are creative, and we are powerful!' Powerful in a different way!" — @vandanashivamovie That’s right, the people have the power! #1u #organize4power #unionstrong #peoplepower
We're celebrating a grievance win! 🎉🎉🎉 Higher Pay for Course Leads! On January 18, 2022, the Union filed a grievance on behalf of all part-time faculty who worked as Course Leads to develop fully asynchronous courses for Continuing & Professional Education (aka CPE). Without the knowledge of or input from the Union, the University created a pay structure for creating asynchronous courses. As a result, the New School underpaid part-time faculty by miscategorizing some of the work under incorrect pay rates. After months of dialogue and negotiation, we’re pleased to let you know that we won! 🎉🎉🎉 The Union has reached an agreement with the New School that raises and improves Course Lead pay. This agreement affects all part-time faculty Course Leads who were hired to create asynchronous course content retroactive to the beginning of Fall 2021 and going forward. (If you are directly impacted by this grievance win, you will receive a separate email from a union rep.) This win is thanks to part-time faculty who spoke up about the amount of uncompensated labor involved in these asynchronous courses. If you are hired to create course content in the future and you believe the pay is insufficient, please get in touch with us. Together we have power! And when we fight, we win! How do you feel about winning? Tell us in the comments! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ Animation: @dschwen #unionstrong #solidarity #1u
Join us for a union picnic in @prospect_park, on Saturday, July 9, between 3- 6 pm. 2022 is a huge year for ACT-UAW Local 7902, not least because our union is 20 years old! That’s right, the 7902 marks the date our union was established - July 9, 2002. 7 - 9 - 0 -2! We'd love to celebrate with you! Help kick off the next 20 years of growth and good contracts. Saturday, July 9, 2022. 3-6pm Prospect Park Picnic House Remarks at 5pm We'll have some food and drinks to share, but feel free to bring your own as well. Entrance near Prospect Park West and 4th Street, Brooklyn 2,3 trains to Grand Army Plaza station RSVP to the link in bio! If you have some time to help volunteer with set-up and breakdown, email [email protected] Solidarity! Video: @grahammacindoe 🙏🏻 #solidarity #1u Participants (help us find everyone on IG!): @annieleelarson @laurenkrauze @tamarsamir @not_a_scab @n_o_a_h_fischer @zoegoldina @ar3ana @aria.vaghayenegar