*Update* Raw Video: GSOC Protest

Note: Journalism ethics prevent me, a GSOC/UAW member, from reporting on this event. So, I just pieced together some footage here for my personal blog. 

Early this afternoon a group of 60 New York University students met in the main floor of the Bobst library to protest the university's refusal to negotiate with the graduate student union. 

The GSOC/UAW union has been without a contract since 2005 when the NYU administration used a controversial National Labor Relations Board decision to no longer recognize its student employees as workers. 

To make things worse, the university is planning a drastic restructuring of funding for graduate school. The new plan, Financial Aid Restructuring 4 (FAR4), which has yet to be implemented but is getting closer to NYU President John Sexton's approval, will do the following:

1. Eliminate Dean Dissertation Fellowships
2. The reduction of the number of fellowships (students)
3. Elimination of ALL TEACHING ASSISTANT POSITIONS
4. The institution of unequal funding packages

5. Recklessly endanger the visa status of all international students 

For more information (there is a lot more to it than I wrote) go to GSOC/UAW's website, or email: gsocuaw@gmail.com

There were less people at the protest than last time, but considering the rain and tough schedule of students leading up to finals week, it went really well. 

The rough video below shows footage from the of the one hour, silent and peaceful, "work-in" protest.