76 people were arrested this afternoon in an act of civil disobedience
held at a rally outside of New York University’s Bobst Library.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney was among the arrested.
Abraham Riesman has more:

The crowd of students, faculty, and union members were protesting the
University’s refusal to negotiate with the UAW Local 2110, which
represents graduate students at NYU. Among those arrested was
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, who spoke earlier at the rally.

[Sweeney]: "Union busting is for corporate criminals, not an education
institution."

The union’s contract with the University expires today. Previously, it
had been the only private university with unionized grad students. NYU
spokesman John Beckman said in a statement that the union had
broken the terms of its contract by interfering in academic decisions,
such as which grad students get to act as instructors. Grad student
Maya B. Chatterjee said she only ever saw the union pushing for
economic reforms.

[Chatterjee] "I think the union deals with working conditions...who gets
paid what, what kind of benefits they get, harrassment, things like
that."