When New Obama Chief of Staff Was NYU Exec, School Ceased Recognizing Union

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http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/12551/obama_chief_of_staff_alleged_union_busting_nyu_graduate_students_strike

Three months into a bitter strike, the Graduate Students Organizing Committee sent an e-mail to supporters. “Like their refusal to bargain, their threats last fall, and the docking of prospective pay for striking,” the union wrote, “John Sexton and the NYU administration, aided by former Clintonites Jacob Lew and Cheryl Mills, are again hiding behind a right-wing, Republican NLRB.”

Six years, later, Lew and Mills are back in Washington. Mills is Hillary Clinton’s Chief of Staff at the State Department. Lew reprised his Clinton Administration role as director of the Office of Management and Budget—until last week, when Obama promoted him to White House Chief of Staff.

In 2004, Jacob Lew was the first hire by newly-appointed New York University President John Sexton. Lew served as NYU’s chief operating officer and executive vice president for the following two years, during which NYU withdrew recognition from its graduate student employees union and punished some participants in the ensuing strike. UAW Local 2110 President Maeda Rosenstein, whose local includes GSOC, says Lew was “the point person” in “representing management’s position” against the union. (Full disclosure: the UAW is an In These Times sponsor)

“Every single ruthless tactic from the playbook of union-busting was followed at NYU,” says NYU Professor Andrew Ross. Ross co-edited The University Against Itself, an anthology on the strike.

[dbackjon]

1. Quite the trend in his chief of staffs

All are basically Republicans

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Except for the ones that are basically slimeballs--

…oh, wait…

[msongs]

2. maybe we should introduce the prez to some financial people who are democrat/liberal/progressive nt

[Jackpine Radical]

4. The University of Chicago Disease

must have leapt from the Econ Dept to the Law School some years ago.