With potential strike looming, SENS asks for complete solidarity from New School community

SENS members and students in support walk from the Lang Courtyard to 79 5th Ave. Photo by Gigi Schweitzer.

With the strike deadline of March 6 nearing, the SENS-UAW union has asked The New School’s students, employees, faculty, and parents to show solidarity.  The academic student workers’…

SENS-UAW will strike on March 6 if agreements are not made with the university on a new contract

SENS members raise hands to vote in favor of a March 6 strike deadline. Photo by Cav Scott.

SENS-UAW, representing The New School’s academic student workers, announced it will strike beginning next Wednesday if it does not reach agreements with the university on contract negotiations.   The…

Academic student workers’ union officially reaches the majority needed to authorize a strike

Union members discuss Strike authorization vote at Feb. 23 SENS meeting. Photo courtesy of Molly Ragan.

The union representing academic student workers at The New School, SENS-UAW, has received approval from the majority of its members to go on strike, if necessary. They have…

New School president’s controversial townhouse to be sold for budget deficit relief

The West Village townhouse, or the Scatturo House, at 21 West 11th Street. Image by Jordan Fong

The New School plans to sell the president’s West Village townhouse, otherwise known as the Scatturo House, in an attempt to remedy the university’s current $52 million budget…