Bargaining Update 23
With forty PSC members observing, the PSC Bargaining Team returned to the table on June 17, putting forward a proposal for a new fund to be administered by the union, to which Associate Professors could apply for 3 hours of reassigned time. The union also presented counter proposals related to PSC-CUNY Research Awards and the length of a teaching observation. Read the full update.
Observe Contract Bargaining
All dues-paying members are welcome to observe a bargaining session after attending an online orientation. Your next opportunity to attend an orientation will be:
• Tuesday, July 9, 6:30-7:30 PM, Register here for the 7/9 Zoom.
Primary Election Day is Tuesday, June 25
Today, June 25, is the day to vote in the Primary Election for State, Congressional, Judicial and Party positions. Visit PSC’s Get Out the Vote 2024 webpage for the union’s priority races and click here for a complete list of candidates endorsed by our state affiliate NYSUT.
NYC Budget Campaign #CareNotCuts
PSC members rallied alongside The Peoples Plan coalition and hundreds of New Yorkers at City Hall last Thursday, June 20, ahead of a vote due this week on the FY25 New York City budget. The advocates gathered on the steps of City Hall to urge the City Council to hold its ground on funding for critical city services, including CUNY. While the crowd chanted for A People’s Budget outside, President Davis stood inside with Council Members calling for a fully functional education system. Read more.
A final NYC budget deal will be announced this week. Write your City Council member and the Mayor right now to push for full restoration of the $95 million in community college cuts enacted by the Mayor.
- Send the PSC’s NYC budget letter to the Mayor and your Council Member. Urge them to restore the Mayor’s cuts to fill our 400+ faculty and staff vacancies and make new investments in expanded ASAP, fixing our crumbling facilities, and helping students qualify for Fair Fares.
Public Feedback: Draft Community Equity Priorities
Here’s another way to help advocate for CUNY. The New York City Commission on Racial Equity (CORE) is drafting Community Equity Priorities to inform Racial Equity Plans that will be created by city agencies in the fall of 2024. CORE centers communities that have been historically underrepresented in, or underserved by, government and its processes. They are currently gathering public feedback to ensure that the priorities reflect what New Yorkers need to thrive in the city and what actions the city can take to improve our wellbeing.
PSC leadership and the legislation team met recently with CORE to discuss the importance of CUNY and the ongoing needs of CUNY community colleges. CORE is very interested in elevating CUNY as one of their top priorities.
We strongly encourage members to complete this public feedback form and circulate it among your colleagues, students and other networks.
Make fighting for a Fair Contract for A People’s CUNY part of your summer plans.
Summer Campaigns
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…
Bargaining Update 20 | Win at Arbitration
The union has been vindicated in a grievance related to faculty promotions and governance dating back to 2019. Ruth Moscovitch, of the American Arbitration Association, ruled that LaGuardia Community College violated the PSC-CUNY Contract and the CUNY Bylaws when it changed the word “Summary” to the word “Leadership” under the…
Now do CUNY
Mayor Adams is backing off some of his cuts to K-12 schools. Is he finally listening to constituents, budget experts and the City Council? His attacks on education are unnecessary and hurt the New Yorkers he was elected to serve. Libraries, 3-K and other public services should also be restored,…
PSC has endorsed Council Member Chi Ossé’s FARE Act
PSC President James Davis released the following statement: "PSC-CUNY has voted to endorse Council Member Chi Ossé's FARE Act, a bill that would require the party who hires an apartment rental broker to also pay the broker fee. Rent and associated living costs continue to rise across New York City;…
Bargaining Update 19 | 3 NYC Budget Actions
New York City’s budget deadline is a month away. The PSC’s Legislation Committee is organizing to shore up our champions in the City Council, restore the Mayor’s cuts to community colleges, and win new targeted investments for our students and community colleges. Here’s how to help: Write Your NYC Council Member…
The CUNY Experiment
Like so much about New York City politics, the fates of the various Gaza solidarity encampments that sprang up throughout the city in recent weeks were in part a question of real estate. At the New School, which has no outdoor campus, protesters needed to set up the encampment indoors…
No Business As Usual for CUNY | Bargaining Updates
Union Grievance Wins $1.7 Million for CUNY Adjuncts and Instructional Staff More than 4,300 adjuncts and other instructional staff represented by the PSC will receive a combined payout of more than $1.7 million dollars under the terms of a new settlement agreement signed by President Davis on Wednesday, May 22.…
CUNY Workers Against Austerity
At the City University of New York, academic workers have been fighting for a new union contract for over a year. They are resisting austerity and further corporatization of the university, pushed by politicians and university administrators alike.
