By Doug Cunningham

Roughly a thousand New York University graduate student workers are planning a fall labor action in defense of their collective bargaining rights. NYU has told UAW Local 2110 representing the workers that after five years NYU will no longer recognize the union, taking advantage of a Bush administration NLRB decision to try to smash the campus union. Jenny Shaw is with the bargaining committee of UAW Local 2110 at NYU.

[Jenny Shaw 1] : "Our contract officially ends on August 31st of this year. And I think it's fair to say that NYU can expect that it will not be business as usual following that. There is going to be a lot of disruption on campus and we are going to having an action on that day, the details of which are being worked our right now."

Shaw says the union has lots of community support, strong solidarity among its membership and student support…

[Shaw 2] : "Our membership is enraged by the actions that NYU has taken. We have demonstrated majority support for the union amongst our membership right across the length of the contract and people are determined that they're not going to sit back and take this. And we're not going to let NYU dictate what our working conditions should be. We should have a say in that. And we're going to make sure that our voices are heard."