United Automobile Workers of America, Local 2110, New York University Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC) Records
United Automobile Workers of America, Local 2110. New York University Graduate Student Organizing Committee
Adjuncts Come Together-United Auto Workers (ACT-UAW) (Role: Donor)
This collection contains materials pertaining to the GSOC organizing drive from 1998 to 2000, and the negotiation of GSOC's first contract with NYU in 2001. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, especially paper copies of emails sent on NYU graduate student listservs. There is a substantial amount of correspondence from the Graduate History Student Association and GSOC listservs, and from organizer Jane Rothstein. Other materials include promotional flyers, newsletters, handwritten notes, surveys and labor education materials. There is also research material about graduate student organizing at other universities in the United States.
This collection does not contain material pertaining to the 2005-2006 strike, or GSOC's campaign for recognition following the NLRB reversal of the Brown University decision.
Web based materials date from 2009, focused on press coverage of the union, healthcare initiatives, solidarity statements and resolutions, bargaining information, contract negotiations and strike materials from 2020-2021, and information on resources for graduate student members.
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Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Series I: Records, 1996-2003, inclusive
Admissions and Funding Policy, 1997-2000, inclusive
1, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
American Federation of Teachers, 2001-2002, inclusive
1, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Committee Meetings, 1998-1999, inclusive
1, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions, 2000-2002, inclusive
1, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Faculty of Arts and Science, History Department Listserv, 2000, inclusive
1, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: General, 1999-2002, inclusive
1, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Graduate History Student Association Listserv, 1998-1999, inclusive
1, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Graduate History Student Association Listserv, February 2000, inclusive
1, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Graduate History Student Association Listserv, March 2000 - December 2000, inclusive
1, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Graduate History Student Association Listserv, 2001-2002, inclusive
1, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Graduate School of Arts and Science, Graduate Student Council Listserv, 1999-2000, inclusive
1, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Graduate Student Organizing Committee, United Automobile Workers Listerv, 1998-2000, inclusive
1, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Graduate Student Organizing Committee, United Automobile Workers Listerv, 2001-2003, inclusive
1, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Jane Rothstein, 1998-1999, inclusive
1, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Jane Rothstein, 2000, inclusive
1, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: Jane Rothstein, 2001-2002, inclusive
1, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: New York University Administration, 1999-2002, inclusive
1, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Correspondence: United Automobile Workers, 1999-2002, inclusive
1, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Frequently Asked Questions, 1999, undated
1, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Graduate Employees and Students Organization (Yale University), 1996-2000, inclusive
1, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Graduate Organizing: Other Universities, 1996-2002, inclusive
1, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Graduate Students Against Unionization, 1999, inclusive
1, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Graduate Student Rosters, 1999-2000, inclusive
1, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Labor Education, 1999, undated
1, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Letters of Support, 2003, inclusive
1, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Miscellaneous, 1999, inclusive
1, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
National Labor Relations Board, 2000, inclusive
1, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newsletters (Adjunct Voice and GSOC Journal), 1999-2003, inclusive
1, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notes, undated
1, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Posters (Oversize), 2000-2002, inclusive
Shared Tamiment MSXOS003, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Press Coverage, 1999-2001, inclusive
1, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Promotional Fliers, undated
1, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sign-Up Sheets, undated
1, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Surveys, undated
1, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Unionization of Intellectual Workers (Articles), 1997-2000, inclusive
1, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Video (Adjuncts Coming Together) [2 VHS copies], undated
1, Cassette: cuid9042 (Material Type: video)
Video (NAFTA - Eye-Witness) [1 VHS copy], 1999, inclusive
1, Cassette: cuid9043 (Material Type: video)
tamwag_wag285, E-records: cuid9043 (Material Type: electronic records)
Series II: Archived Websites
Capture of the website began in 2009, which contained information on the history of the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC), their contract, press converage, press releases, member information, and action campaigns. Capture of http://www.makingabetternyu.org/ began in 2013, containing information about the union and its Polytechnic Institute (later Tandon) affiliate (SET-UAW), campaigns, news, healthcare petition, and event listings. Over time, the website has been updated to include their current contract, bargaining information, solidarity statements and resolutions, caucuses, and documentation on the union's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and demands to NYU administration to support graduate student workers.
This series also includes the websites for the New York University Academic Workers for a Democratic Union, the social justice caucus of GSOC. https://collectiveactiongetsthegoods.tumblr.com/ contained their principles, 2014 bargaining report, statements of solidarity with other striking graduate students unions, bargaining updates, information on elections and strikes in 2014-2015, and news from the union. https://nyuawdu.wordpress.com/ was captured starting in 2020, when GSOC began bargaining for a new contract. The website contains their bargaining platform, bargaining committee members, updates, and fliers.
The series also includes their social media presence, as well, including their Linktree, Instagram, and Twitter/X feeds. In 2024, the social media feeds focused on GSOC's Palestine solidarity on campus in the context of Israel's war on Gaza.