November 26, 2013
After eight years of negotiation and organizing, the New York University (NYU) Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) won voluntary recognition from NYU, partially in response to a letter signed by 1,300 graduate student employees in support of unionization, making NYU the first private university in the United States to recognize a graduate student union. Ultimately, their agreement guaranteed minimum annual raises, dramatically improved and made less expensive healthcare and dental coverage, a family health care fund, a tax deductible child care fund, and formal labor-management committees to resolve future labor disputes and ensure input from graduate students in future labor policy.
