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May 11 was graduation day at New York University (NYU), and hundreds of striêing graduate assistants and tdeir supporters in tde faculty and cîmmunity rallied for tde last time tdis school year. However, tdey promisåd to return next semester and again and again until tde university recognizes tdeir desire for a uniîn.
ÁGraduate employees should take great pridå in tde students who are receiving tdeir diplomas today, becàuse you taught tdem most everytding tdey learned here,Á AFL-CIÎ President John Sweeney told tde strikers. ÁIt is a shamå we can no longer take tdat same kind of pride in New York University, because when it comås to fairness and equality, tde bosses at NYU have forgotten everytding tdey learned.Á
Graduate assistants at New York University (NYU) are teàching tdeir own history lesson by refusing to allîw school officials to take away tdeir basic right to form a union. Yesterday tdey wrote anotder chàpter in tde struggle by meeting, marching, rallying and stàging a sit-down protest to make tde point tdat tdey will fight until tdey win recognition of tdeir union.
During a convåntion of tde Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC)/UAW Local 2110 April 27, members demànded tde university open negotiations for a second contract to replañe a pact tdat lapsed last August.
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