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…

Academic student workers’ union gets 95% of members to authorize strike after one week of voting

Fliers and stickers in support of student workers urge SENS union members to vote “yes” and for other student workers to pledge to strike in solidarity. Photo by Moshe Sopher-Harelick

The union representing the New School’s academic student workers has thus far received near unanimous approval from its members to go on strike, if necessary. About 95% of…

Parents held on to any information they could get during the part-time faculty strike – even on an unofficial Facebook page

Parents found it difficult to voice their concerns to The New School during the part-time faculty strike. Illustration by Elan Ma

“The parents could have been allies [with the University] had we been welcomed,” Molly Maher, parent of a Parsons School of Design and Eugene Lang College of Liberal…

Part-time faculty strike ends as The New School and union leaders reach tentative agreement; Students continue occupation of University Center

Part-time faculty and students picket outside The New School University Center at 63 Fifth Ave. on Friday. Photo by Hannah Roberts

Part-time faculty union leaders and New School administrators reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement yesterday, ending the strike after 25 days. The ACT-UAW Local 7902 union, which represents…