Join us next Thursday, 10/10 to hear recent updates on our campaign and learn how to get more involved!

Greetings & Salutations!  

We're thrilled to announce that a majority of faculty have signed authorization cards in support of forming our union, SVA Faculty United-UAW! Thanks for joining hundreds of your colleagues in support.

Reaching majority support is an important milestone. Once a strong majority of faculty have signed authorization cards, we may choose to ask that SVA remain neutral, or we can seek recognition through an election with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In an election, once a majority votes in favor of forming a union, SVA will be legally obligated to bargain with us. 

To meet up and discuss the tremendous progress we've made we will be hosting a Town Hall at 6:30 pm on Thursday, Oct. 10th in room 101C at 133/141 West 21st street.

Come and hang out with your SVA colleagues from across all departments, eat pizza, hear from unionized faculty at other institutions, and get answers to questions about the unionization process and other next steps.

We look forward to joining the tens of thousands of non-tenure track faculty and other academic workers who have negotiated significant improvements to their working conditions as part of the United Auto Workers (UAW), including colleagues at major institutions like Barnard College, New York University (NYU), and The New School (Parsons).

Please RSVP by Oct. 7th! To learn more about our effort, sign a card, or to get more involved, you can visit our website here. 

Best,

Nelson Isava, Film
Justin Elm, Art History 

on behalf of SVA FAC-UAW Organizing Committee