[IP] NYU administration goes to despicable lengths to stop a graduate student strike
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From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 2, 2005 7:04:08 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, noise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: NYU administration goes to despicable lengths to stop a
graduate student strike
Reply-To: joehall@xxxxxxxxx
(From a very good blogger and professor, Kathleen Fitzpatrick)
On Strike at NYU
<http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/index.php?/weblog/on_strike_at_nyu/>
"[NYU]'s administration, and particularly NYU President John Sexton,
however, have retaliated against the [striking] grad students in a
series of heavy-handed ways, including infiltrating the campus's
Blackboard installation in order to find out which faculty members
were supporting the strike. Now Sexton has sent the students an
ultimatum: any students who remain on strike as of Monday will be
denied next semester's assistantship, and any who return to strike
next semester will be deprived of a full year's funding."
More:
NYU Strikers Vow to Stay Out
<http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/powerplays/archives/002114.php>
"The strikers, members of United Auto Workers Local 2110 (the same
union that represents Voice employees), walked out after Sexton broke
off bargaining for a new contract this summer, saying the university
intended to take advantage of a new Bush administration decision that
graduate student employees are not covered by federal labor laws. (See
Voice, "The Nerds are Pissed," November 15)."
--
Joseph Lorenzo Hall
PhD Student
UC Berkeley, School of Information (SIMS)
<http://josephhall.org/>
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