Welcome Back to Fall Semester, Raises, and the Fight against Fascism
Dear Colleagues, Welcome back to the 2025-2026 academic year! I hope you had a restorative summer despite the exceedingly difficult times we are living through, including attacks on universities, the social safety net, vulnerable populations of all kinds, and the rule of law itself. Times like these remind us how…
PSC’s Davis demands CUNY end ‘perennial’ problem of late adjunct pay
The Chief: In a letter sent last week, Professional Staff Congress–CUNY (PSC) President James Davis said adjuncts — who teach the majority of courses at the university — continue to face “financial stress and disrespect” when their first fall semester paychecks arrive late. “On-time pay should be a given at…
CUNY Professors Fight Back
Indypendent: When S, a faculty member at Brooklyn College opened an email from HR in June, the last thing she thought was that she was going to be let go from her position as adjunct professor. “I had been scheduled by my department to teach two classes in the fall,…
Can Zohran Mamdani Fix New York’s Public Education?
Jacobin: In this exclusive interview, organizer, union activist, and professor at John Jay College, Nivedita Majumdar, discusses the potential challenges to realizing Mamdani’s platform. These include barriers to funding, connections between education and climate, and the roles of civil society and union advocacy. Drawing lessons from historical city governance, she explains…
Retroactive Pay | 150+ Rally at Brooklyn College
Wage increases up to the April 1, 2024 level began to appear in the August 1st paychecks for all eligible employees paid by the city. Retroactive pay covering the period beginning March 1, 2023, will arrive for eligible members paid by the city on August 15. For all eligible employees…
New York City’s Labor Movement Is United In Opposition To Attacks On Their Communities
Harlem World: New York City’s labor movement is united in sounding the alarm about the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to “flood the zone” to intimidate, harass and racially profile immigrants across our city. We are deeply disturbed by ICE’s escalating tactics of targeting immigrants at courthouses, denying residents’ due…
Protesting CUNY for Letting 4 Adjunct Faculty Go over Palestinian Rights
Informed Comment: Letter to the City University of New York protesting the non-reappointment of four adjunct faculty members and the suspension of a student.
Brooklyn College Faces Backlash Over Fired Faculty
BK Reader: More than 150 City University of New York faculty and staff rallied at Brooklyn College Thursday to demand the reinstatement of four faculty members in what the union says was due to their public advocacy for Palestinian rights. Organized by the Professional Staff Congress, a union representing 30,000 faculty and staff at…
Ratification Bonus for Part-Timers | Rally & Letter to Reinstate the Fired Four
The Brooklyn College PSC chapter has called a rally this Thursday, July 31st at 4 PM outside the Bedford Gates of Brooklyn College to demand the reinstatement of the fired CUNY faculty. The rally will call on Brooklyn College President Michelle Anderson and Chancellor Matos Rodríguez to stop the repression,…
Zionist McCarthyism Comes for CUNY
Jacobin: Republicans’ ideological attack on higher education seemed limited to elite Ivy League institutions at first, briefly dressing up an authoritarian crackdown on left-wing ideas like Palestinian solidarity and racial equality in the drag of anti-elitism. That’s changing. Now they’re coming for public universities all over the country.
