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Following the recent protest by NYU students who occupied a portion of Kimmel Student Center from February 18-20, 2009,
The Joint Council of ACT-UAW Local 7902 has voted to issue the following statement. ACT-UAW Local 7902: - Calls
on the NYU Administration to refrain from all disciplinary action against student protesters pending proper hearings by NYU's
disciplinary board;
- Calls on the Administration to address the serious policy issues that the protest has raised,
by working with the faculty, students, and staff to establish a university-wide fiscal accountability committee;
- Calls
on the Administration to appoint an independent university committee that will promptly investigate allegations of the use
of excessive force against the protesters.
Local 7902 shares the view stated in an NYU faculty petition: "the
Kimmel occupation [is] symptomatic of a deeper malady afflicting NYU: a lack of educational community." The Local notes,
in particular, the negative impact on educational community of the disregard for workers' rights that the student protest
highlighted. We therefore call on the Administration to recognize and bargain with GSOC, the union for graduate student employees,
as a first step toward improving the situation.
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