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The Bush-appointed National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) denied tens of thousands of graduate employees at private universities important federal protections associated with forming a union and collective bargaining.  The board’s decision overturned unanimous, bi-partisan precedent and mistreats graduate employees—full-fledged workers who want full-fledged rights.

Now New York University is taking advantage of this partisan decision to deny its graduate employees their basic right to have a union and bargain collectively.

NYU graduate employees and their union, the United Auto Workers, negotiated important improvements for campus workers, including a dramatic raise in stipends, health care benefits and overtime pay.

But now NYU wants to deny these workers the ability to bargain collectively to improve their working conditions.

Well-established collective bargaining relationships at universities from coast to coast demonstrate that allowing graduate employees to bargain does no harm to academic quality or relationships.

Take action right now and tell the NYU Administration to allow graduate workers the freedom to have a union and bargain collectively.