N.Y.U. Moves to Disband Graduate Students Union

I wonder if this was NYU's idea, or if someone 'hinted'...--Dictynna.

By KAREN W. ARENSON

New York University is moving to close down its graduate students union at the end of the summer, the labor movement's only toehold among graduate students at private universities.

Union officials quickly attacked N.Y.U. 's plan and vowed to fight the university in any way they could.

In a memo circulated yesterday, N.Y.U.'s provost, David W. McLaughlin, and its executive vice president, Jacob J. Lew, said that they had proposed that the university stop recognizing the five-year-old union when its contract expires Aug. 31.

They said the collective-bargaining process had produced benefits for student teaching and research assistants, like better compensation and clearer work rules, but that union grievances had threatened academic decision-making.