5 Ways to Win a Contract and a Budget for A People’s CUNY
Monday Morning Rally, February 27, 7:30-9:30 AM Stand together to rally outside CUNY Central (205 E. 42nd St.) the morning of Monday, February 27 for a Fair Contract for a People’s CUNY that supports better working, teaching, and learning conditions, and a better life for PSC members, CUNY students,…
CUNY union criticizes hiring freeze, budget cuts
The City University of New York has announced a hiring freeze and has ordered budget cuts across its 25 campuses, a development slammed by CUNY’s largest union. Each college must find 5-to-6 percent savings, according to a memo sent earlier this month by Hector Batista, the city university system’s executive…
CUNY set to cut budget and implement hiring freeze, school says
CUNY has ordered its 25 colleges to cut their budgets and implement a hiring freeze, the school confirmed via email Saturday morning. Most campuses will have to cut their programming and activity expenses by approximately 5% to 6% in fiscal year 2024, according to a memo sent to deans and…
Hochul’s budget looks to revamp state workforce
In an effort to rebuild a state public workforce significantly diminished by the pandemic, Governor Kathy Hochul last week unveiled an executive budget that dedicates nearly $19 million to employment-creating initiatives for New York’s public sector.
New York education unions call for higher education funding
Education unions in New York on Tuesday called for $4.7 billion in spending for higher education programs in the state ahead of a potential tuition increase at public colleges and universities.
Gov. Hochul increases CUNY funding and tuition
Gov. Kathy Hochul increased funding for CUNY in her recent budgeting proposal, but her 2023 briefing book proposes indexing the increases to the Higher Education Price Index, or 3% for both SUNY and CUNY.
CUNY Is the People’s University. Austerity Is Killing It.
The City University of New York is the crown jewel of the city’s once-robust welfare state, a vital resource for working-class New Yorkers. Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul are starving it.
Hochul announces largest school aid funding in New York history, including 100% state-funded Foundation Aid formula
Schools are big winners in Governor Kathy Hochul’s $227 billion executive budget, which includes a massive infusion in public education and a fully state-funded Foundation Aid formula program to close the learning gap across New York.
With deadline passed, Medicare amendment appears doomed: But PSC union’s ‘third way’ proposal has some traction
The city’s oft-stalled intention to switch roughly 250,000 retired municipal workers to a private Medicare provider from their traditional Medicare plan will go ahead without affording the retirees an option to keep a popular health program.
Mayor Adams plows ahead with plan to privatize health benefits for 250,000 NYC municipal retirees
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is showing no signs of stopping an already-delayed plan to switch 250,000 retired municipal workers from traditional Medicare to a private Medicare Advantage plan – with or without the cooperation of the City Council or the support of retirees themselves.
