Statement on Comptroller Brad Lander’s Refusal to Register the Aetna Medicare Advantage contract
We thank Comptroller Brad Lander for exercising the appropriate judgment and fulfilling his charter-mandated duty by refusing to register the Aetna Medicare Advantage contract. The Comptroller is well within his rights to question the City’s authority to force retirees out of traditional Medicare until it has been decided in court.…
PSC Response to CUNY Board of Trustees’ Overbroad Description of Hate Speech
Since the first contractual agreement signed by CUNY and Professional Staff Congress in 1973, the preamble has stated, “Whereas, CUNY and the PSC seek to maintain and encourage, in accordance with law, full freedom of inquiry, teaching, research and publication of results, the parties subscribe to Academic Freedom for faculty…
Opinion: CUNY Needs Funding, Not Cuts
The mayor needs to look somewhere else to cut funding. Successful higher education programs should not be on the chopping block. As a career specialist working in CUNY’s Accelerated Study in Associate Programs (ASAP) for the last 16 years, I am appalled almost every year when we have to come…
Union Actions and Guidance Regarding Air Quality
June 7, 2023 Dear colleagues, The sudden and shocking collapse in air quality today in NYC has many of us alarmed for our health, and the health of our loved ones. The union reached out to CUNY today to express our concern, and to ask that all employees be released…
Urging Chairman Bill Thompson to get CUNY to the Table
PSC members picketed outside the Wall St office of CUNY Board of Trustees Chairman Bill Thompson on Monday, June 5, and flooded the CUNY leadership with calls telling them to do their jobs and begin bargaining. Our contract expired three months ago, and we first requested bargaining dates six months…
A Public Power victory in New York State
On May 2, New York became the first U.S. state to pass a major Green New Deal policy following four years of organizing by the Public Power NY coalition and allies. The Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA), now New York State law, empowers and directs the state’s public power provider—the…
Monday Contract Actions | Open Forum on Racism and Anti-racism at CUNY
Picketing and Leafleting Action 100 Wall Street – 9 AM, Monday, June 5 It’s been three months since our contract expired, and CUNY management has yet to respond to our repeated calls to begin negotiations. It’s inexcusable and disrespectful to all PSC members. Monday, June 5, we’re taking our…
Union sues CUNY over pension record failures
The Professional Staff Congress, which represents 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York, has sued the public-university system over what the union claims is CUNY’s “repeated failure to deduct and submit employee pension contributions” in a timely manner. CUNY is, by law, required to deduct its…
Welfare Fund News
At the May 24th meeting of the PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund Board of Trustees, the trustees clarified that Retirees who are over 65 years of age and otherwise eligible for PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund Retiree supplemental benefits will remain eligible for all Fund supplemental benefits if they waive participation in the New York City…
Research Foundation Central Office Workers Vote in Favor of Strike Authorization
Almost 80% of PSC members at the CUNY Research Foundation (RF) Central Office have voted in favor of strike authorization rather than accept management’s offer on their latest contract. 93% of eligible members participated in the vote. The RF, admits they have the money to give our members larger raises--they…
