NEWS:

PSC CAMPAIGN FOR "RATIONAL INVESTMENT" IN CUNY.  The new budget page on this website features regular news, information, and ways to get involved to fight for CUNY.   Find out what's new, what's next and what we can do.  Click here for report on Jan. 26-27 Albany lobbying and testimony.

D.A. RESOLUTION ON THE BUDGET CUTS. On Thursday, January 28th, the Delegate Assembly passed a resolution calling  on the New York State Legislature to reject the governor’s proposed budget cuts for CUNY, to support the PSC’s proposal to the Legislature to make a modest start this year on restoration of funds cut in the past two years, to reject the central, privatizing structure of the Public Higher Education Empowerment and Innovation Act, and to accept instead the PSC’s proposal to start now on a long-term strategy for rational investment by the State in its public university systems.  Click here for the resolution.

◄ACT NOW!  Click the "Act Now" logo (to the left) to send a letter to your NYS legislators, adding your voice to the call for a “rational investment” in public higher education.

2010 ELECTION NOTICE.  Half of the PSC chapters will be electing officers, delegates and alternates to the PSC Delegate Assembly and members of the Welfare Council Advisory Board.  Click here for details and the election notice.

New Hires: 30 Days to Decide on Pension Plan.  New full-time hires must make a permanent choice about which pension system they prefer to participate in within 30 days of their start date.   If you are a full-time employee and do not select a pension system, you will be automatically enrolled in the NYC Teachers Retirement System.  Click here comparing the pension plans, and information about the options is available at college human resources offices and from PSC Director of Pension and Welfare Benefits Clarissa Gilbert Weiss. Call her at the PSC office, (212) 354-1252. Part-time colleagues (including CLIP teachers) should sign up for TRS.

Chapter Meetings and the Contract.  Barbara Bowen and other officers will visit every campus this semester to begin a union-wide conversation about bargaining the next contract with CUNY. These meetings will be the membership’s chance to hear directly about issues that have already emerged for the upcoming negotiations and to discuss their own concerns and ideas. Click here for dates.

ADJUNCT PAY DATES.  Click here for Spring 2010 pay dates.

MORE UPDATES on the PSC-News page of this website.

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