New TV Ad Campaign
New PSC – CUNY Rising Ads Urge New Yorkers to Tell Their Electeds: Support the New Deal for CUNY https://youtu.be/0ILF7YMxNog The PSC, in coalition with the CUNY Rising Alliance, launched a digital ad campaign this week calling on New Yorkers to contact their elected officials to support the New Deal…
CUNY union demands raises, equity in new contract: Tight fiscal environment
As part of its previous contract, the Professional Staff Congress was able to raise the minimum pay for adjuncts at the City University of New York to $5,500 per course. With that 2019 labor agreement now expired, the union is seeking to build on that progress. The union’s president, James…
Hundreds of CUNY Faculty and Staff Rally to Demand New Contract, Real Raises
With their union contract set to expire the next day, almost 500 CUNY faculty and staff rallied outside CUNY’s Midtown headquarters Monday morning to take their demands for a new contract straight to management’s front door. The Professional Staff Congress (PSC) – the union representing 30,000 faculty and staff at…
CUNY Union Rallies for New Contract Amid Push for Additional State Budget Investment
City University of New York faculty, staff, and students marched outside CUNY Central headquarters in East Midtown early Monday morning, in a nearly 500 person-strong rally organized by the Professional Staff Congress – the union representing over 30,000 CUNY employees. The rally was scheduled for the eve of the expiration…
PSC-CUNY Rallies for Better Working Conditions
The Professional Staff Congress (the union representing faculty members) held a protest outside CUNY Central on Feb 27, the day before their contract expired. The union’s bargaining agenda is taking into consideration the impact that COVID-19 had on union members and students. These include learning to shift modalities from in-person…
CUNY workers rally for new contract
The Professional Staff Congress — which represents 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York — rallied outside of the CUNY headquarters in Midtown Manhattan on Monday morning to outline their demands for a new contract as their contract is set to expire. The union’s demands include…
Op-Ed | CUNY is at an inflection point in this year’s state budget
Each year, the State budget has the power to shape the lives of hundreds of thousands of CUNY students and tens of thousands of dedicated faculty and staff. Through 46 years of teaching at CUNY, I’ve been here for periods where CUNY was fully funded and the promise of public…
CUNY union launches campaign to boost higher education support
The union that represents faculty and staff at the City University of New York is launching a digital and TV ad campaign meant to boost higher education funding in the state budget. The campaign from the Professional Staff Congress will begin airing on Tuesday in the Albany and New York…
Contract Rally Monday | Tell Albany to Fund the New Deal for CUNY
Can we count you in for the Monday Morning Rally? Be there in solidarity before work Monday, February 27 as PSC members rally outside CUNY Central (205 E. 42nd St.) the morning before our contract expires. Show management that we need inflation-beating raises, extra pay increases for lower paid colleagues,…
Opinion: Increasing CUNY and SUNY tuition is a working and middle-class tax increase in disguise
It’s time for the state to reinvest in both institutions and follow through on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s vision for higher education. In 2022, Gov. Kathy Hochul laid out an ambitious agenda for public higher education in New York. She committed to increasing CUNY and SUNY funding by $1.5 billion over…
