NYU Professors Vote to Strike After Bosses Stonewall for Months

Source: Prospect

The decision by Contract Faculty United at New York University comes as more workers walked off the job in 2025 to win higher pay, stronger benefits, and other gains.

by Whitney Curry Wimbish February 25, 2026

An overwhelming majority of New York University contract professors voted to strike late Friday night, after more than a year of waiting for administrators to finish bargaining a first contract in good faith.

“We are rental tenured faculty, by and large held to similar standards, but we are essentially at-will employees,” said Elisabeth Fay, a clinical associate professor in the expository writing program and member of the union’s bargaining committee. “We want a contract similar to the adjunct contract and we are pushing for something that looks like an enforceable version of a status quo. And this is treated as a completely unreasonable and ridiculous request.”

Contract Faculty United-United Auto Workers (CFU-UAW) Local 7902 members will now set a deadline for management to respond before they walk off the job. Their next bargaining session is scheduled for Friday, the 25th time they’ve come to the table in 15 months.

The strike vote comes as workers across the United States have increasingly flexed their power to win higher pay, stronger health benefits, better working conditions, and other gains.


Read more: https://prospect.org/2026/02/25/nyu-professors-vote-to-strike-uaw-trump-labor-nlrb/