Why does NYU refuse to bargain a contract with our union, GSOC/UAW Local 2110?
There is no legal obstacle to the NYU administration sitting down and negotiating with our union. The NYU administration is capitalizing on a partisan right-wing National Labor Relations Board decision interpreting federal law. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is the independent federal agency that administers and interprets the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a federal law governing the relationship between unions and employers in the private sector. The National Labor Relations Act guarantees the right of employees to organize and bargain collectively with their employers. In a 2000 case involving the rights of NYU graduate employees to organize, the NLRB recognized graduate employees as protected by the National Labor Relations Act. This NLRB ruling in effect guaranteed graduate employees the right to collective bargaining. In July 2004, however, a newly constituted National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with a majority of Bush Administration appointees reversed the NYU
