The PSC is organizing to protect our members, institutions, and communities amid unprecedented federal assaults. Get involved today and stand together in solidarity to defend our fellow workers, students, immigrants, trans people, and all those under attack.
Working Groups and Committees for Emergency Response
Members can join these groups to help activate the power of our union on key issues
Upcoming Events
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- Fridays: Courthouse support against mass deportation
- Thursday, May 21st at 6pm: Zoom training for Courthouse support
May Day 2026 (Paul Frangipane)
Higher Ed Labor united Rally, February 19th (Erik McGregor)
James Davis speaks at the "Hands Off CUNY!" Presser (Paul Frangipane)
Fired Four Rally at CUNY Central (Paul Frangipane)
May Day 2026 (Paul Frangipane)
Timeline: Events & Statements
2026
- Friday, May 1st: May Day
- Wednesday, April 15th: May Day Briefing and Town Hall
- Monday, March 30th: Immigrant Solidarity Mass Meeting
- Saturday, March 28th: No Kings!
- February 24th: Bus Trip to Albany to Tax the Rich!
- January 26th: PSC announces victory for three of the Fired Four
- January 23rd: ICE Out for Good March
- January 12th: New York For All – March for the Disappeared in Albany
- January 11th: No Wars, No Kings, No Ice! Rally and March
2025
- December 10th: Nationwide AAUP/AFT Higher Ed Campaign Update
- December 4th: Immigrant Solidarity Gathering and Social
- November 13th: Combatting Contingency in a Time of Political Repression
- November 7th: Protest of Billionaire Marc Rowan: Hands off Higher Ed!
- October 29th: Hands off New York – Mass Call
- October 28th: NY Metro Coalition for Higher Ed – Citywide Town Hall
- October 18th: NO KINGS!
- September 26th: Defending Research Working Group Meeting
- September 25th: New Yorkers Against ICE! Rally in Foley Square
- September 12th: Sexuality and Gender Working Group general meeting
- September 6th: Labor Day Parade and March
- September 3rd: Immigrant Solidarity Working Group hybrid mass meeting
- August 13th: Immigrant Solidarity Working Group mass meeting
- Thursday, July 31th: Rally to Reinstate the Fired Four at Brooklyn College
- July 17th: “Good Trouble Lives on In Us” mass mobilization
- July 14th: Hands Off CUNY! Hands Off Higher Ed! Press conference
- June 30th: Press conference to tell Congress: Defend Federal Research Funding!
- June 25th: Immigration webinar
- June 14th: Nationwide “No Kings” Protests
- June 6th: No ICE in the Courts Rally at Foley Square
- May 27th: PSC Members Deliver Over 7,300 Signatures to CUNY: No ICE/DHS on CUNY Campuses!
- May 19th: Immigrant and Non-Citizen Solidarity Event: “Prepare, Protect, Powerbuild”
- May 5th: PSC discussion on Responding to the Trump Administration’s Attack on All Things Transgender, featuring Paisley Currah.
- May 1st: May Day Rally in downtown Manhattan
- April 25th: Colleges at a Crossroads March from CCNY to Columbia.
- April 24th: City Hall Rally for Students, Workers, and Academic Freedom
- April 17th: Rally for the Right to Learn at Foley Square Park
- April 11th: Emergency mobilization in defense of international student and worker visas
- April 8th: “Kill the Cuts” rally to defend critical funding for research
- April 5th: “HANDS OFF! Day of Action” with hundreds of PSC members and tens of thousands of other New Yorkers
- March 31st: PSC attends rally for Trans Rights on Trans Day of Visibility
- March 25th: Second of two-part series of panels on academic freedom in the local and national context
- March 18th: Emergency Town Hall on Defending our Insitutions and Communities
- March 15th: Hundreds of PSC members join thousands of labor allies in Manhattan for a march to stop the cuts!
- March 14th: PSC expresses solidarity with Columbia Student Workers in the face of repression and the expulsion of their president
- March 11th: PSC calls on CUNY to respond to the detention of Mahmoud Khalil and protect its employees and students
- March 7th: Stand Up For Science rally with dozens of PSC members and thousands of academic labor allies
- March 7th: PSC President James Davis raises awareness about workers’ rights in the face of increased Title VI investigations
- February 26th: PSC objects to Governor Hochul’s cancellation of a Palestine Studies job posting at Hunter College
- February 19th: Higher Ed Labor United rally to defend science research funding in the face of assaults on the NIH
- February 19th: Federal Unionists Network protest in support of federal workers under attack
- February 5th: NYIC Press Conference to defend “sensitive locations” from ICE raids
- January 16th: City Hall rally against Trump’s mass deportation agenda
