Protesters Arrested at NYU GA Union Protest

On the day the graduate student union's contract with NYU expired, 76 protesters involved with a rally outside Bobst Library were arrested for civil disobedience Wednesday [August 30].

Included among the group, none of whom were actually jailed, was John Sweeney, president of the AFL-CIO and other top union officials, as well as graduate students and several undergraduates.