For May Day - "no work, no school, no shopping!" - academic labor unions from across the City converged on The New School, before joining the big labor march from Washington Square Park to Foley Square.
Folks from St. John's told of their administration's ceasing to recognize their faculty union ("Hear us now, we'll say it slowly, union-busting is unholy!") while a leader of the NYU full-time contract faculty who just won a contract urged all to mobilize ("they say it's a bad time, but it's always a good time to organize!"). Our own predicament, as still opaque faculty and staff layoffs beckon, framed the proceedings. Despite the aspirational banner in the picture above, we don't have a full-time faculty union, although a majority of us have expressed interest.
