Whats behind HERE-UAW takeover of union at NYU?
March 24, 2006 | Page 15 SARAH WOLF, a striking member of GSOC at New York University, reports on recent developments in her union. NEW YORK–Members of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) learned at a meeting March 15 that our local, UAW Local 2110, will no longer be running our strike at New York University (NYU). In a surprise move that had clearly been in the making for some time, all Local 2110 staff have been pulled out of strike organizing duties (although they have not been fired), and all operations will be run by a joint team of regional and international UAW representatives and paid UNITE HERE organizers from GESO, the Yale graduate student union (which has never won a contract). Our local president, Maida Rosenstein, no longer has authority over strike strategy or operations–a move made without the say of GSOC members. Meanwhile, 12 rank-and-file GSOC organizers will be hired as paid staff by the new strike leadership. The March 15 meeting was attended by both
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