<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=2kv5sW_1H33cHKq00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=2kv5sW_1H33cHKq00" width="1200" height="800" ></figure>After NYU’s RA union reached its first deal with the university last year, resident assistants became official university employees — and thus, subject to administrators’ 20-hour limit on work per week. Now, RAs with additional on-campus jobs are concerned that they could be forced to pick between the roles. Student Workers at NYU organized a town hall on Wednesday evening, looking to gather more RAs’ perspectives before deciding how to address the situation: either spark negotiations with the university, ignore the concerns or navigate them another way. However, after Wednesday’s town hall saw only a few members in attendance, union representatives said they want to hear more feedback before taking any action with the university. After scoring a collective bargaining agreement with NYU in December 2025, RAs were slated to receive a $2,600 stipend per term through the summer, with annual raises outlined until the fall of 2030. However, with direct compensation also came the university’s restrictions on all of its employees. “As previously communicated to SWAN, these are not new policies,” NYU spokesperson Joseph Tirella told WSN. “When resident assistants became unionized they became employees and long-maintained university policies state that when classes are in session, student employees can work up to 20 hours per week; when classes are not in session, they can work up to 35 hours per week.”According to this academic year’s role profile, RAs should expect to work about 20 hours per week in the residence hall — meaning that they cannot work another on-campus job without exceeding their limit on working hours. However, SWAN members contended that they do not log their hours specifically, nor are they paid hourly, and thus they have never counted their time working as RAs toward the 20-hour limit. SWAN representatives told WSN that each of their NYU employers have enforced the rule to varying degrees. While some RAs have worked another on-campus job and not been contested, others have been forced to pick between their roles to meet the university’s policies. “Either their employer said something about it, or their employer hasn’t said something about it, and now the RA is just worried,” SWAN representative Liam Rio told WSN. “Like, ‘Maybe one day they will figure it out, and I’m not gonna have a job anymore.’” In addition to the stipend, the RA position also guarantees free housing and a meal plan, further complicating the consideration. Kelli Jackson, organizing representative for SWAN, said it is important that SWAN’s response to this will “protect RAs now, but also protect the RAs of the future.”“If we try to do something, then when the contract is getting ratified, we’ll all be long gone,” Jackson told WSN. “So we need to have something in place that will protect them too.”Contact Charlotte Hanscom at [email protected].</div></body>

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After NYU’s RA union reached its first deal with the university last year, resident assistants became official university employees — and thus, subject to administrators’ 20-hour limit on work per week. Now, RAs with additional on-campus jobs are concerned that they could be forced to pick between the roles.

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After NYU’s RA union reached its first deal with the university last year, resident assistants became official university employees — and thus, subject to 

RAs push back on NYU’s 20-hour work week policy

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