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PSC-CUNY Contract Approved by Board of Trustees
The CUNY Board of Trustees voted to approve the collective bargaining agreement between the PSC and the University at a meeting held last night at Baruch College. The approval process is now complete. The union’s bargaining team and Contract Enforcement department will be monitoring the implementation of the contract. PSC leaders have already begun pushing the CUNY administration and City and State officials to pay the retroactive salary increases and begin paying members at their new salary rates as soon as possible. CUNY management has not yet announced dates. (Read the FAQ on the timing of the raises.)
Contract ratified by 86 percent!
The new contract originated in a vision of what New York City’s public university should be, and it takes us a few steps closer to making the vision real. We have many steps to go. Let’s take them together.
Barbara Bowen
President, PSC
AAA Breakdown of Ratification Vote Results
PSC-CUNY Contract Ratification Vote Results
Data Provided by American Arbitration Association
(based on eligible voter list provided by PSC)
| Employee Title Category | Voted Yes | Voted No | %Yes |
% of Eligibles Voting |
| F/T Faculty & Other FT1 | 5,514 | 489 | 92% | 82% |
| CLTs (F/T & Adjuncts)2 | 493 | 45 | 92% | 69% |
| HEOs | 3,934 | 126 | 97% | 86% |
| Adjuncts, NTAs, CETs & Hourlies3 | 3,604 | 1,342 | 73% | 62% |
| Grad. Assts. | 115 | 314 | 27% | 61% |
| TOTALS | 13,660 | 2,316 | 86% | 75% |
1 In addition to F/T faculty in the colleges, professional, law and medical schools, this category includes Research & EOC titles, Hunter Campus School titles.
2 Of the eligible voters in this category, 66% are full-time.
3 Of the eligible voters in this category, 90% are teaching adjuncts, 7% are non-teaching adjuncts and 3% are Continuing Education Teachers.
Highlights of the Contract
- Breakthrough on adjunct pay—the biggest gain in equity in the union’s history
- Salary increases across the board of more than 10% by November 2022
- Retroactive pay increases
- Pay for teaching adjuncts restructured: minimum for a three-credit course rises by the end of the contract to $5,500 (an increase of 71%), four-credit course to $6,875
- Adjunct workload restructured starting next semester to include paid office hours for every course
- Additional salary increases for equity: full-time CLT titles, all Lecturer titles, and Assistants to HEO
- Across-the-board salary increases also applied to EOCs and Continuing Ed faculty
- Graduate employee health insurance funding and tuition waivers expanded
- Improved funding and firm time frames for HEO differential awards
- First-ever contractual language on on-line teaching, union participation in University technology committee
- Contractual travel funds doubled
- Research support for department chairs, starting 2021
- Increased funding for professional development funds for adjuncts, Continuing Ed faculty, CLTs and HEOs
- Access to professional development grants for non-teaching adjuncts
- Pilot program on payment of stipends for specific projects
- Welfare Fund funding increased, supporting further benefit enhancements
- Joint PSC and CUNY anti-bullying campaign
- No give-backs
Memorandum of Agreement
This Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) is the legal document that contains every provision of the proposed new contract. This is the signed MOA. Attachment I, the 2018 letter agreements with NYC regarding health insurance are attached to the PDF version of the 2017-23 MOA.
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This is the first in a series of short messages sent to ensure that you have accurate information about the proposed contract. Unfortunately, false and misleading claims about the contract have been circulated.
The question of funding is always pertinent at CUNY. What makes this contract different from past contracts is that it comes with a commitment of tens of millions of dollars annually in State and City funding, over and above the annual salary increases and equity increases. The additional funding is committed to pay for the new adjunct office hours. The PSC won the support of the CUNY Board, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio for a major new investment in CUNY’s workforce and its students.
This is the second in a series of short messages designed to provide accurate information about the proposed contract. Many members have had questions about retroactive salary increases, or back pay.
Back pay is the difference between what you were actually paid and what you would have been paid if the new contractual higher rates had been in place at the time your paycheck was issued. If the proposed contract is ratified, you will be entitled to back pay if you were on CUNY payroll in a position represented by the PSC at any time since October 1, 2018. That is the date of the first 2% salary increase in the proposed contract. A second 2% increase would be effective as of October 31, 2019.
This is the third in a series of short messages providing accurate information about an aspect of the proposed contract. The introduction of single rates of pay for each adjunct teaching title is a significant change, and it’s not surprising that there has been some confusion about how it would work. This message aims to clarify the new structure. 1. The biggest increase for adjunct faculty will start almost immediately if the contract is ratified; adjuncts do not have to wait until the final year. Beginning next semester, every adjunct will see a significant increase through the progressive provision of paying adjuncts for more of the hours they actually work. Adjuncts will be paid for office hours at their full hourly rate. As a result, the minimum pay for a three-credit course, currently $3,222, will rise right away to $4,469, an increase of 39%.
Colleagues,
This is the next in a series of short messages designed to clarify aspects of the proposed contract. Voting on the contract ends tomorrow night. Paying adjuncts for more of the hours they actually work is a progressive provision and a centerpiece of the new contract. Here is a short guide to how it will work if the contract is ratified.
Paid office hours for adjunct faculty would begin almost immediately. Starting next semester, every adjunct (and full-timer on overload) who teaches a course of three contact hours or more will be responsible for and paid at their full hourly rate for formal office hours, if the contract is ratified. The provision for paid office hours means that adjuncts are paid for substantially more of the hours they work; it recognizes the professionalism of adjunct faculty; and it guarantees and expands students’ access to their instructors outside of class.
More In This Section
This is the first in a series of short messages sent to ensure that you have accurate information about the proposed contract. Unfortunately, false and misleading claims about the contract have been circulated.
The question of funding is always pertinent at CUNY. What makes this contract different from past contracts is that it comes with a commitment of tens of millions of dollars annually in State and City funding, over and above the annual salary increases and equity increases. The additional funding is committed to pay for the new adjunct office hours. The PSC won the support of the CUNY Board, Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio for a major new investment in CUNY’s workforce and its students.
This is the second in a series of short messages designed to provide accurate information about the proposed contract. Many members have had questions about retroactive salary increases, or back pay.
Back pay is the difference between what you were actually paid and what you would have been paid if the new contractual higher rates had been in place at the time your paycheck was issued. If the proposed contract is ratified, you will be entitled to back pay if you were on CUNY payroll in a position represented by the PSC at any time since October 1, 2018. That is the date of the first 2% salary increase in the proposed contract. A second 2% increase would be effective as of October 31, 2019.
This is the third in a series of short messages providing accurate information about an aspect of the proposed contract. The introduction of single rates of pay for each adjunct teaching title is a significant change, and it’s not surprising that there has been some confusion about how it would work. This message aims to clarify the new structure. 1. The biggest increase for adjunct faculty will start almost immediately if the contract is ratified; adjuncts do not have to wait until the final year. Beginning next semester, every adjunct will see a significant increase through the progressive provision of paying adjuncts for more of the hours they actually work. Adjuncts will be paid for office hours at their full hourly rate. As a result, the minimum pay for a three-credit course, currently $3,222, will rise right away to $4,469, an increase of 39%.
Colleagues,
This is the next in a series of short messages designed to clarify aspects of the proposed contract. Voting on the contract ends tomorrow night. Paying adjuncts for more of the hours they actually work is a progressive provision and a centerpiece of the new contract. Here is a short guide to how it will work if the contract is ratified.
Paid office hours for adjunct faculty would begin almost immediately. Starting next semester, every adjunct (and full-timer on overload) who teaches a course of three contact hours or more will be responsible for and paid at their full hourly rate for formal office hours, if the contract is ratified. The provision for paid office hours means that adjuncts are paid for substantially more of the hours they work; it recognizes the professionalism of adjunct faculty; and it guarantees and expands students’ access to their instructors outside of class.
