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Join the Fight for Your Contract

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The new academic year begins with a new level of resistance by PSC-CUNY members to the failure of CUNY management to make an offer for a contract.

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The union is not sitting still. “Starting on the first day of this new academic year, the union will accept no more excuses,” PSC President Barbara Bowen told members.

The new term begins with an escalating series of actions, starting with emergency campus meetings, a demonstration outside the building where Chancellor James Milliken lives in a luxurious apartment – for which CUNY pays $19,500 a month – and a mass disruption later in the fall. In between, there will be teach-ins and teach-outs, and training available to union members on disruptive protest tactics and militant picket lines.

To be part of the action, mark dates for union-wide actions listed below and check the listings by campus for activities in your chapter.
To make a commitment to fight for your contract, sign up.

Check the PSC calendar, which will be continually updated.

In PSC’s six full bargaining sessions (and a dozen smaller negotiation meetings) since the union made a salary proposal in May, CUNY management has not moved to put money on the table. While almost every public employee union in the state has settled its contract this year, PSC members, who have been working without raises for nearly six years, are still waiting. Chancellor Milliken said in February that a new contract and retroactive raises are a priority, but change has yet to come.

For more information, contact your chapter chair or PSC Organizing Director Deirdre Brill at [email protected].

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Union-Wide Actions

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1 / Wake-up Call for Chancellor Milliken protest outside his expensive apartment on the morning of the CUNY Board of Trustees’ first meeting of the school year.

OCTOBER 19 – 30 / Teach-In, Teach-Out, Teach CUNY on CUNY campuses. Two weeks of local actions and activist curriculum.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 / Disruptive Mass Action

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19 / PSC Mass Meeting

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Campus and Chapter Meetings

BARUCH | Tuesday, September 8 12:30 – 2:30 pm / Room VC 14-250

BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE |Thursday, September 10 / 12:00 – 1:50 pm / Room LH 36

BRONX EOC | Wednesday, September 9 / 1:00 pm / Room 117

BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Wednesday, September 16 2:00 pm / Room N452

BROOKLYN COLLEGE | Thursday, September 10 / 12:30 – 2:00 pm / 222 Whitehead Hall

BROOKLYN EOC | Tuesday, September 8 / 3:15 – 4:30 pm / Room 304

CENTRAL OFFICE | Wednesday, September 9 / 12:30 – 1:30 pm / Fifth floor training area, 395 Hudson Street

CITY COLLEGE | Thursday, September 17 /12:15 pm / Room NAC 4-220B

CITY TECH | Thursday, September 17 / 12:45 – 2:00 pm / Room N-1002

COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND |Tuesday, September 8 / 2:30 – 4:00 pm / Room 1P 201

THE GRADUATE CENTER | Thursday, September 10 / 12:30 – 2:00 pm / Room 9204-6

GUTTMAN | Wednesday, September 16 / 6:15 – 7:30 pm / Room 401

HOSTOS |Wednesday, September 16 / 2:30 pm / Room B503

HUNTER |Wednesday, September 9 / 1:00 – 3:00 pm / FDA Lounge, Eighth Floor West

JOHN JAY |Tuesday, September 8 / 1:30 pm / Ninth Floor Conference Room

KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Monday, September 21 / 3:00 – 4:30 pm / Room M239

LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Thursday, September 3 / 12:15 – 1:00 pm / Little Theater

LEHMAN |Thursday, September 10 / 3:30 pm / APEX Conference Room

MANHATTAN EOC |Thursday, September 3 / 1:00 – 2:00 pm / Rooms 1509 and 1510

MEDGAR EVERS |Wednesday, September 9 / 11:30 – 12:30 pm / Room B2008

QUEENS COLLEGE |Wednesday, September 16 / 12:15 – 1:30 pm / Dome

QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE | Wednesday, September 2 / 12:00 pm / Faculty Dining Room

YORK COLLEGE |Thursday, August 27 / 12:00 – 1:50 pm / Room IM 06

RETIREES |Tuesday, September 8 / 1:00 – 3:00 pm / PSC Union Hall


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