Op-Ed | Time for CUNY to settle deal with faculty-staff union
For the second year in a row, enrollment is up at the City University of New York heading into fall semester. Increasing numbers of New Yorkers come to CUNY to meet their educational goals and obtain a degree from the country’s largest urban public university. This is welcome news after…
Fall 2024 Welcome and Update
Dear Colleagues, Welcome to the Fall 2024 semester! I hope your summer was filled with joyful and fulfilling experiences - time with family and friends, time for your research, scholarship, and creative projects, time to gaze at the stars or gaze into the future you want to see on the…
Urging the Trustees to Vote No on the Bylaws Changes
On August 16, PSC President James Davis wrote to the CUNY Board of Trustees urging them to vote against proposed changes to the CUNY bylaws that would erode the academic authority department chairs and confound many provisions of the PSC-CUNY contract. The letter refutes misrepresentations made by Provost Wendy Hensel…
Bargaining Updates 26 and 27
Bargaining Updates 26 and 27: On August 13, the PSC bargaining team was joined by 24 members at the PSC offices. Topics from both sides ranged over a number of specific proposals. President Davis returned to a concern voiced by CUNY management regarding any expansion of eligibility for multi-year appointments.…
Bargaining Update 25
Bargaining Update 25: On July 18, the PSC bargaining team continued to press CUNY management to make the most of the summer in the second negotiating session of the month. With 35 member observers joining them at CUNY Central, the union focused on two counter proposals, each advancing a set…
Bargaining Update 24
Bargaining Update 24: At the July 3 bargaining session, with nearly forty members observing, the union and management agreed that progress had been made toward the costing of the contract. Proposed changes to the PSC-CUNY Research Awards were discussed, and the parties exchanged counter offers related to salary increases that…
PSC Members, Students to Bill Thompson: ‘Contract Now!’
Seventy-five PSC members and CUNY students rallied Friday morning outside the Wall Street investment bank where CUNY Board of Trustees Chair Bill Thompson serves as chief administrative officer. Hundreds of passersby took leaflets urging them to call Thompson at work and tweet at Chancellor Matos Rodríguez to demand that CUNY…
Bargaining Update 23 | Contract Now Demonstration, 100 Wall St.
Contract Now Demonstration at 100 Wall Street Friday, June 28, 9:00-10:00 AM Join a morning demonstration outside Board of Trustees Chair Bill Thompson’s Wall Street Investment Bank. We'll hold Thompson accountable for CUNY’s attacks on job security and governance, and make sure he knows that we expect him to tell…
Bargaining Updates 21-22 | Summer Campaigns
CUNY management remains obstinate about job security, governance, and fair pay. So, bargaining and our pressure campaign must intensify. The Chancellor and the Trustees will get no break while 30,000 faculty and staff have an expired contract! Make fighting for a Fair Contract for A People’s CUNY part of your…
Funding, not cutting, CUNY is a wise investment
New Yorkers know that CUNY is one the city’s best supporters of economic mobility, broad prosperity and strong public institutions, so it’s confounding why the Mayor has chopped nearly $100 million from the university’s budget. Cuts to CUNY are unacceptable and will hurt the future of New York. If the…
