1:50pm – The graduate students union here at NYU, GSOC, is currently protesting in the lobby of Bobst with placards and flyers.
1:55pm – They were oringinally sitting along the benchs in the main lobby and flyering near the main doors, but now seem to be leaving the building.
1:59pm – Gathered at the front doors, the group chanted for about a minute before vacating the premises.
2:02pm – The lobby is now clear and all is right in the world.
After the failed attempts to renegotiate their contracts with NYU in 2005, GSOC is now asking students for support of the Teaching and Research Assistants Collective Bargaining Rights Act – a piece of legislation, they point out, cosponsored in the Senate by Former Senator Obama. This, they feel, gives them the right to push for a national focus on TA/RA rights that have been ignored over the past eight years.
A nice, brief protest with a short message and a simple thing folks can do to support them (go to this website and sign their online petition). If only every protest in the world would end so quickly and cleanly.
Plus, they all had lovely blue and yellow shirts on – dress uniformity is always a plus in my book.
A fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work.
-Thomas Carlyle
Labor and solidarity brothers in arms. I also commend you on taking reasonable action for your cause.
@ Alex
Here you are, two or three weeks later, still insisting that anyone who doesn’t agree with or pokes fun at you couldn’t possibly support any progressive social agendas.
Shut the fuck up.
@Alex
Congratulations! You are the Bob Saget of the labor movement! Also, you’re a huge hypocrite and an equally large D-bag! I have worked for labor rights for 36 years. I do not make an ass of myself like you, so very few people know my name. Yet I have made actual PROGRESS for the people you claim to want to help so bad. It happens, but you have to pick your battles as they say. You have and will accomplish nothing. You seem to like to protest for the sheer act of protesting itself. This is more repulsive than being a career politician. Do us in labor a solid and go abroad after you graduate. See the real world, and stop your richboy private college “People’s Panty Raid” acts of civil disobedience. You are persona non grata or as the Latin kids would say, a douchebagus maximus. If I worked in a evil corporation that sold sucky, day-old douchebags I would hire you as our pitchman. We would sell out in hours. It’s not too late to change your major. Where there’s an ass, there’s a fart. You stink. You don’t know the first thing about anything. Just another spoiled kid with a MacBook and a camera. Grow the hell up, but please do it on a island somewhere far, far away. You are poison to the labor movement. Go away. I beg you. We don’t want your “help.” I speak for dozens of my fellow union members. Go! Away! Now! Seriously! You are a charlatan and a pseudointellect. You are a laughingstock. I’ve never wanted to see police brutality more than watching your video. You deserve to be tazed and ass-raped by an HIV positive bear in prison. Keep up the great work, Alex! We’re all rooting for you.
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