Overview
- Talks are set to continue through the weekend before an 8 a.m. Monday deadline, with picketing to begin at 9 a.m. on Mercer Street if no deal is reached.
- More than 60 New York state and city officials urged NYU to reach a fair agreement to prevent a work stoppage.
- CFU-UAW represents over 900 full-time contract faculty who teach about a quarter of classes at the roughly 60,000-student university.
- NYU describes a counterproposal with a $90,000 assistant-rank base next academic year and a path to about $140,000 average pay by the 2030–31 academic year.
- The union seeks improvements on pay, job security, workload, academic freedom and AI, while NYU says it will protect academic continuity with tenured faculty and substitutes.