Angela Davis on Sunday, Rally on Tuesday

Civil rights activist, scholar, and author Angela Davis will speak in Washington Square Park on Sunday, October 30, at 5:00 PM. Members of your bargaining team will be out leafleting the crowd and spreading the word about our next rally. It needs to be our biggest contract bargaining rally yet. Join your fellow members this Tuesday, November 1, after work.

If you're in the city on Sunday and would like to help leaflet, we will be meeting in front of the arch in Washington Square Park at 4:00 pm.

Otherwise, our contract bargaining rally is:

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1
5:15 PM to 7:30 PM
7 East 12th Street
Rain or shine
Bring signs, make noise!

Photos from Thursday Night

We thought our members would enjoy seeing these pictures from Thursday night's bargaining session.

CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?

It was an amazing night at the bargaining session today. Over 100 UCATS members showed up to exercise our power and tell NYU what we think of management's unaffordable health insurance and wage proposals. The messages coming from all of you echoed what the UCATS bargaining team has been saying to NYU's negotiators all along: our members are living on the edge, and these proposed changes would push us right over the cliff.

We hope that NYU will finally get down to the business of negotiating a FAIR contract with us when we meet with them on Friday.

Keep reading the blog for updates and calls to action.

SAVE THE DATE
General Membership Meeting
Monday, November 7
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South
Room 808

BARGAINING UPDATE - NYU makes an offer we can't afford.

Don't take our word for it. Click below and see for yourself.

NYU's HEALTH INSURANCE PROPOSAL

NYU'S WAGE PROPOSAL

Key elements of the health insurance proposal:

• Across the board increases in health insurance premiums
• Steep increases to co-payments that would mean a member using the health insurance benefit could pay more in co-payments than they pay in monthly premiums

Key elements of the wage proposal:

• Pay freeze in the first year
• Small raises starting in 2012 that do not keep pace with the increases in health insurance costs, let alone the rising cost of living in New York

Are you upset? We certainly are. And we are putting out an urgent call to action for all of our members. Thursday is currently our last scheduled bargaining session before our contract expires. If you are unhappy with NYU's proposals, stand up and be counted. Come out Thursday after work for an impromptu DAY OF RAGE. NYU needs to hear from you if we are going to move them away from these unaffordable proposals.

DAY OF RAGE
THURSDAY, OCT. 27
7 EAST 12th STREET
Come after work. Stand up and speak out about NYU's proposals.

BARGAINING UPDATE - Hostage situation at 7 East 12th Street!

Your UCATS bargaining team was held hostage tonight by NYU. We were told that, unless we agreed to some of the proposals they put forward for the first time tonight, they would not present their wage or health insurance proposals.

In addition to denying us those crucial proposals, NYU submitted a proposal to us that would make the grievance and arbitration process the SOLE REMEDY in cases of discrimination.

We told NYU we would not be held hostage, and we need to see their wage and health insurance proposals in order to bargain.

Come join us Wednesday night at 5:30 for the contract rally and put the pressure on NYU to bargain with us! RAIN or SHINE - bring your umbrellas!

UCATS RALLY FOR A FAIR CONTRACT
Wednesday, October 26
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
7 East 12th Street