ACT-UAW, Local 7902 Archived Websites
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Abstract
ACT-UAW Local 7902 represents over 4,000 part-time and adjunct teachers at the New School and New York University. This collection is consists of the websites for Local 7902, dating back to 2013. The union is made-up of four bargaining units, the New York University Adjuncts, New School Part-Time Faculty (PTF), New School Student Employees (SENS), and New School Student Health Services Employees (SHENS).
Historical Note
ACT-UAW Local 7902 (Adjuncts Come Together, in some early contracts they also have gone by Academics Coming Together) represents over 4,000 part-time and adjunct teachers at the New School and New York University. The union was formed in 2002 by adjuncts at NYU, which first ratified their first contract in 2004 and elected their first executive officers in 2005. In 2004, adjuncts at the New School began to negotiate, and reached an agreement with the New School in 2005. The union has successfully negotiated better pay, job security, partially subsidized health care, pension benefits, and promoted transparency within the universities' budgetary systems. In 2015, Tandon adjuncts voted yes for union representation.
In 2015, academic student workers at the New School began organizing under Local 7902. In 2017, they voted to form a union and went on strike in 2018. They won a contract with the New School. During the COVID-19 pandemic, New School part-time faculty voted to ratify a pandemic recovery plan. In 2022, contract negotiations began for New School and New York University adjunct teachers.
In 2022-2023, contract faculty at New York University began organizing for NYU administration to recognize their union. In 2023, the New Student Workers Union at the New School began organizing.
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Websites are arranged by date.
Scope and Contents
The ACT-UAW Local 7902 Archived Websites (October 2013-ongoing) collection consists of the websites for ACT-UAW, Local 7902, dating back to 2013. The union is made-up of multiple bargaining units, the New York University Adjuncts, New School Part-Time Faculty (PTF), New School Student Employees (SENS), and New School Student Health Services Employees (SHENS). The websites contain current and past contracts, memoranda of agreement, summaries of rights and benefits, arbitrations, information about their committees and stewards, election results, bargaining updates, strike authorizations, events, news from the union's president, their newsletter, testimonials, and a gallery of their members' art. Issues of the newsletter, Adjunct Voice, date from 2006-2009. The website has been redesigned three times since crawling began, once in 2014, 2017, and mid-2021.
The collection also contains the websites and social media for the bargaining campaigns for NYU Adjuncts and New School Part-Time Faculty units for new contracts in 2022. These websites highlight negotiations between the units and their respectively administrations at New York Univesity and the New School.
The websites in the collection also cover ongoing (as of this writing in June 2024) organizing efforts within the union, specifically the efforts of the NYU Contract Faculty United (CFU-UAW Local 7902) which cover New York University full-time non-tenure track continuing contract faculty on renewable appointments from across the university and the New Student Workers Union at the New School.
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This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; ACT-UAW, Local 7902 Archived Websites; WAG 370; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
In 2013, http://www.actuaw.org/ was initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2013 as part of the Labor Unions and Organizations (U.S.) Web Archive. In November 2015, the website was migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In May 2022, https://youarethenewschool.com/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2022.062. In July 2022, https://sensuaw.org/ and https://www.nyuowesadjuncts.com/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2022.067. In November 2022 Google documents related to bargaining were added to the the collection. The accession number associated with these documents is 2022.088. In December 2022, https://twitter.com/uaw7902/ and https://www.instagram.com/act_uaw7902/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2023.002. In February 2023, https://nyucontractfacultyunion.org/ and https://vimeo.com/user190072101/ were added. The accession number associated with these websites is 2023.022. In March 2023, https://linktr.ee/nswu/ was added. The accession number associated with this website 2023.037. In June 2023, https://newstudentworkersunion.com/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2023.061. In June 2024, https://nyu-adjuncts.notion.site/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2024.032. In October 2024, https://x.com/uaw7902/ was added. The accession number associated with this website is 2024.058.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Crawling of the Instagram feed was performed in WebRecorder.
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Appraisal
Robots.txt (a piece of code designed to limit crawler activity within a website) was ignored. Websites were rescoped to include Google Documents.
Accruals
New site crawls are accrued semiannually. During the COVID-19 pandemic, websites were accrued monthly.
About this Guide
Processing Information
The collection was maintained by Nicole Greenhouse. Maintenance of the collection consisted of rescoping due to missing captured content, redirects and content drift, missing embedded materials (such as videos or attached Google documents and pdfs), and other materials created by selected entities. The finding aid was created in July 2022.
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Archived Websites
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/http://www.actuaw.org/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/http://www.actuaw.org/wp
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://sensuaw.org/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://youarethenewschool.com/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://www.nyuowesadjuncts.com/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://twitter.com/uaw7902/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://www.instagram.com/act_uaw7902/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://nyucontractfacultyunion.org/
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https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://vimeo.com/user190072101/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://linktr.ee/nswu/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://newstudentworkersunion.com/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://nyu-adjuncts.notion.site/
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://x.com/uaw7902/
