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February 5, 2026
The power of Black union leadership
The union's BIPOC Working Group held a panel event on the subject of Black labor leaders.
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On the ground in Minneapolis
A PSC member reports back on the resistance to ICE and Border Patrol in Minneapolis, and what it means for activists here in New York City.
Read MoreJanuary 30, 2026
A lifetime of representing PSC members
Howard Prince, who represented PSC members in contract enforcement for half a century, looks back on a career of feisty unionism.
Read MoreJanuary 27, 2026
Milly Silva: the new PSC executive director
Milly Silva, a veteran of the labor movement, has joined the PSC as executive director. She has already hit the ground running.
Read MoreJanuary 27, 2026
Why fair housing works for CUNY
CUNY cannot become a leading global university system without addressing the hidden housing challenges faced by its students, faculty, and staff. A PSC member who served on the mayor's housing policy transition team argues that the new mayoral administration, working in partnership with the state, could help CUNY address longstanding needs.
Read MoreJanuary 16, 2026
Signing up new members, growing the union
Takiyah Ali, the director of graduate studies at Lehman College and a PSC delegate, went above and beyond last semester when the Delegate Assembly held a member recruitment competition.
Read MoreJanuary 15, 2026
Big win for science research against Trump
Faculty in the sciences fighting against the deep federal cuts to research can claim a victory this month. Research could use the help, as funding fell dramatically last year. The New York Times reported that on January 5 “A federal appeals court ruled..that the Trump administration could not make drastic cuts to the federal funding supporting much of the country’s medical and scientific research, reaffirming a lower court’s ruling from early last year.” The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit said that “one of the Trump administration’s earliest attempts to kneecap universities, through proposed reductions to grants from the National Institutes of Health, was unlawful.”
Read MoreJanuary 13, 2026
PSC stands against US intervention in Venezuela
The Trump administration’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3 was met with widespread condemnation in the labor movement, including from PSC members. Citing a long history of US racism and imperialist intervention in Latin America, the PSC Delegate Assembly in December adopted a resolution opposing any US intervention in Venezuela.
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