PSC/CUNY Calls for U.S. De-escalation towards Cuba and an End to the Blockade
The Professional Staff Congress (PSC/CUNY) condemns ongoing U.S. aggression toward Cuba, including escalations that openly revive American imperialism, falsely depict the country as a threat to U.S. national security, and gravely imperil its entire population. We oppose Executive Orders imposing an energy blockade, sanctions and tariffs restricting foreign oil supplies,…
2026 Chapter Election Results
On May 11, the Elections Committee certified the results of the 2026 chapter elections held in April. The Delegate Assembly heard the committee’s report on May 14th. Thirteen chapters elected chapter officers, delegates, and alternates to the union’s Delegate Assembly. Ten elected representatives to the PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund Advisory Council.…
PSC Statement on the Enacted State Budget
The budget fully funds salary increases in the PSC-CUNY contract and adds $23.5 million toward CUNY’s fringe benefits. It increases the senior college operating budget and devotes more than $500 million toward CUNY’s $7 billion backlog of deferred maintenance needs. It also holds the line on resident tuition, maintains the…
Intro 175-B Defeated
Statement from PSC President James Davis May 20, 2026 “The dangerously broad, anti-free speech “buffer zone” bill, Intro 175-B, will not become law. Thank you to the PSC members, siblings in the city’s labor movement, and allies who took action to ensure this outcome. We are deeply grateful to the…
Statement on Louisiana v. Callais from the PSC Principal Officers
In hollowing out the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court has taken deliberate steps to deny meaningful representation for African Americans and others who have been historically disenfranchised. Let’s be clear: this decision will foster discrimination through redistricting and fuel racial inequity in political representation. This ruling is about voter…
Statement on Mayor Mamdani’s Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2027
Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a $124.7 billion executive budget for FY2027 yesterday. The plan closes a historic budget deficit without service cuts. The budget achieves balance by relying on additional funding from the state, efficiencies and program reforms, a new pied-a-terre tax on luxury second homes, pension restructuring that has…
PSC Members Turned Out and Took May Day Action
Between the citywide mobilization, the CUNY-wide wear red to work action, adjunct speakouts on multiple campuses, art-builds, teach-ins, tabling and petitioning, more than 1600 members took May Day action with the PSC last week.
Statement on Mayor Mamdani’s Veto of Intro 175-B
PSC/CUNY President James Davis released the following statement on Mayor Mamdani’s Veto of Intro 175-B: “Mayor Mamdani proved himself a champion of students, faculty and staff once again today when he vetoed Intro 175-B. This “buffer zone” legislation would jeopardize First Amendment rights to free expression for all New Yorkers…
Elected Officials Join CUNY Faculty and Staff to Speak-Out on the Health and Safety Crises on Brooklyn CUNY Campuses
Brooklyn elected leaders joined dozens of CUNY faculty and staff represented by the Professional Staff Congress outside Borough Hall on Wednesday, April 22nd to sound the alarm about persistent health and safety crises across the City University of New York campuses.
PSC calls on Mayor Mamdani to veto Intro 175-B
We call on Mayor Mamdani to veto Intro 175-B, which broadly limits free speech outside of educational facilities, such as those that host worker-training programs, libraries, schools, and universities, including all CUNY colleges. The bill is unnecessary and unconstitutional and will invite political repression of unfavored speech. It deprives our…
