WE ARE ATS LA-UAW

As faculty and staff at the New York Film Academy Los Angeles campus, we are coming together to bargain collectively with NYFA and build our united voice as educators and staff whose work sustains this institution. We are joining the tens of thousands of academic workers at NYFA New York, UC, USC, and across the US who are seeking to secure a better future through collective bargaining as part of the UAW. We also join a growing movement of faculty and staff at institutions like Harvard, NYU, The New School, Barnard, ArtCenter, and CSU who have organized strong unions and negotiated meaningful improvements to salary, benefits, and working conditions.

Without collective bargaining, we have experienced stagnant salaries, increasing workloads, vanishing benefits, threats to job security, and a lack of transparency in administrative policies. If our benefits and working conditions are secured in a collective bargaining agreement, NYFA cannot change the terms of our employment without our consent. As employees across NYFA Los Angeles, we are forming a union in order to improve our working conditions and to make the university a more equitable and accessible institution for teaching, research, and learning.