The Student Health Services (SHS) employees union (SHENS) reached a tentative agreement with The New School around 10 p.m. last night, averting a strike that would have prevented…
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Student Health Services employees will strike on Dec. 8 if they don’t reach an agreement with the university
This article was updated on Nov. 29 at 3:28 p.m. The union representing Student Health Services (SHS) employees at The New School (SHENS) said they will go on…
The New School’s Student Health Employees union votes to authorize a strike
The New School’s Student Health Employees union (SHENS) voted 17-1 on Friday to authorize a strike, following four months of contract negotiations. If the unit strikes, students would…
Academic student workers push to be treated like professionals as they continue to bargain with The New School
“Extremely frustrating.” That’s how bargaining committee members of SENS, the unit representing The New School’s academic student workers in the ACT-UAW Local 7902 union, describe the process of…
Non-academic student workers march petition for fair union election to interim president’s office, denied a meeting with her
Over a dozen members of NewSWU, the group working to unionize nonacademic student workers, marched to New School Interim President Donna Shalala’s office with a roughly 10-foot-long petition…
Labor unions at The New School, explained
Studying at a university that experienced the longest adjunct professor strike in the country’s history, receiving constant emails about contract bargaining, and hearing talk of new unionization drives…