RF GRAD CENTER, RF LAGCC, RF NYCCT
Current bargaining status:
The PSC and the RF have continued to negotiate throughout the summer. We remain very far apart on wages. The union continues to resist management’s demand to shift health care costs onto employees through two large increases in the employee share of the health insurance premiums. The next bargaining sessions are scheduled for August 5, 2010. If you are interested in attending, please contact the appropriate PSC organizer listed below. [Posted 8/3/10]JUNE 10th BARGAINING SESSION. At the bargaining Thursday, June 10th, management refused to provide a counter on wages. That puts their current economic package at a 1.5% per year minimum for wages. As for health insurance, they propose increasing the employees’ contribution to the premium from 11% to 15% in the first year and to 19% in the second year. It would remain at 19% in the third year. This is a substantial improvement over their previous position, which was to increase the employee contribution to 19% immediately and tie further increases to those of nonunion employees. The union’s last proposal was 6% per year salary increases with a dollar minimum for lower wage employees and a phase-in of the health insurance increases over the life of the contract ending at 16%.
On noneconomic issues, management continues to insist on draconian no strike/no lockout language, which would prohibit hand billing and postings and would allow the RF to discharge an employee for any violation no matter how minor. [Posted 6/12/10]
Learn How to Win Meeting - LAGCC, Wednesday, June 23, 8:15 - 9 am, Room E244
SIGN THE PETITION FOR A FAIR CONTRACT NOW: Sign the petition to the RF Board of Directors by clicking the "RF Contract Now!" logo to the left. Your browser will open to new window. Take 30 seconds to add your name to the petition -- and then send. MAY 24th RALLY OUTSIDE RF BOARD MEETING
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More than 40 protesters rallied outside CUNY Researh Foundation headquarters in midtown Manhattan on Monday May 24 to demand that PSC members at the NYC Tech, LaGuardia and Graduate Center Research Foundations receive a fair first contract. RF-CUNY has offered salary increases of only 1.5% while demanding that workers immediately increase the contribution to their health insurance premium from 11% to 19% while offering them salary increases of only 1.5%. During the protest, PSC First Vice President Steve London and two members of the union bargaining teams went to the RF Board of Directors meeting on the 8th floor and delivered petitions, that were signed by 700 people, to RF President Richard Rothbard. Help us send the message that RF workers deserve a fair contract now! Click here to sign the petition to the RF Board of Directors.
Picket line at 5/24 Board of Directors meeting. Photo credit: John CatalinottoJohn Catalinotto
PSC First VP Steve London addresses picketers. Photo credit:
PSC President Barbara Bowen addresses picketers. Photo credit: John CatalinottoRF Graduate Center
Elena Gaudino, Elena.gaudino@gmail.com
Peter Frase, pfrase@gc.cuny.edu
Ellen Noonan, enoonan@gc.cuny.edu
Georgina Pierre-Louis, gpierre-louis@gc.cuny.edu
Organizer: Rob Murray, rmurray@pscmail.org
RF LaGuardia Community College
Sandra Johnson, sjohnson@lagcc.cuny.edu
Maurice Pinzon mpinzon@lagcc.cuny.edu.
Organizer: Alex Reusing, areusing@pscmail.org
RF NYC College of Technology
Jay Klokker, jklokker@verizon.net
Organizer: Alisa Simmons, asimmons@pscmail.org
Graduate Center bargaining is every Thursday from 12:30-2:00pm at the Grad Center. Contact Rob Murray if you are interested in attending.
Bargaining for NY Tech and LaGuardia alternates between the two campuses. It is held every Thursday
. Contact Alisa Simmons if you are interested in attending.Learn How to Win Meeting - LAGCC, Wednesday, June 23, 8:15 - 9 am, Room E244
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