[IP] NYU administration goes to despicable lengths to stop a graduate student strike

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <joehall@gmail.com>
Date: December 2, 2005 7:04:08 PM EST
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>, noise@sims.berkeley.edu
Subject: NYU administration goes to despicable lengths to stop a  
graduate student strike
Reply-To: joehall@pobox.com

(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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