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Mediator joins the table as bargaining resumes between The New School and its part-time faculty

Faculty and students picket outside The New School University Center at 63 Fifth Ave. on Nov. 22. Part-time faculty have been on strike since Nov. 16 as they collectively bargain with the university for a fairer contract. Photo by Tara Lamorgese

A mediator joined the table for the first time yesterday as collective bargaining between The New School and its part-time faculty union resumed. Members of ACT-UAW Local 7902…

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Voices from the picket line

New School part-time faculty and students protesting outside the University Center on Tuesday. Photo by Tara Lamorgese

Thoughts, opinions, hopes and fears from students and faculty during the first weeks of the part time faculty strike

New Schoolers march to President McBride’s townhouse to demand better treatment of part-time faculty, student workers and other staff

Nelson Nuñez, recording secretary of labor of the United Brothers of Teamsters Local 1205 stands in front of New School President Dwight A. McBride's townhouse with a letter demanding improved working conditions for university workers. Image by Hope Thompson.

Dozens of New School students and faculty marched down Fifth Avenue to university President Dwight McBride’s West Village townhouse earlier this month to protest the working conditions of…

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