Mayor Mamdani | What’s next?
A Message from PSC President James Davis
Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor with a massive voter turnout and a clear mandate. Congratulations and thank you to every PSC member who participated in this historic campaign. We’ll have a true CUNY champion leading this City soon, one who has re-centered the politics of our city around the needs of working people and fought for a free and fully funded CUNY system.
The election is only the beginning. The coalition that supported Zohran Mamdani for mayor now has to throw down to enact the Affordability Agenda on which he campaigned. PSC members joined other early Mamdani endorsers on Sunday to launch the Peoples’ Majority and pledge to continue the struggle for a New York we can all afford. We’ll be organizing our neighborhoods and campuses, rallying in the streets, and pushing in Albany to make the rich pay their fair share of taxes.
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign put 100,000 volunteers in the field, knocking on doors, phone banking, text banking and mobilizing their neighbors to vote. Imagine if all that grassroots people power went to work demanding that Albany meet the needs of ordinary New Yorkers. Imagine if the unions that coalesced around Mayor-elect Mamdani put their might into the fight as well. The PSC and our 700,000-member statewide affiliate, NYSUT, can be central to that campaign for change.
A better city is possible. We can have free buses, affordable housing, free childcare, and a free and well-funded public university. We can keep a strong public sector and services that meet our needs, even in the face of cruel federal budget cuts. We can protect New York and CUNY from an authoritarian presidency. It won’t be easy, but we are done listening to politicians and oligarchs tell us what is not possible.
Let’s keep up the momentum with two more displays of union power this Friday and next Thursday.
Tell Billionaire Marc Rowan: Hands off Higher Ed
No Compact! No Loyalty Oaths! No Oligarchs!
Fri, Nov 7, 11AM, 9 West 57th St, Midtown | RSVP Here | Flyer Here
NYC students, faculty and staff will protest billionaire Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global Management, architect of Trump Higher Ed Policies, as Part of National Day of Action Against Trump’s Higher Ed Assault.
Combatting Contingency in a Time of Political Repression
Thurs, Nov 13, 6-8PM, PSC Union Hall and On Zoom
RSVP In-Person | RSVP on Zoom
A hybrid forum about academic freedom, free speech and the effects of contingency and adjunctification on the suppression of political speech on campus. In-person in the PSC Union Hall, 25 Broadway, 15th Floor, and on Zoom. Sponsored by PSC/CUNY, American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and Higher Education Labor United (HELU).
Published: November 5, 2025
