Pensions Lawsuit | Remote Work Agreement | Research Foundation Strike Authorization
Remote Work Agreement Extended Through Next June A message went out Monday informing HEOs, CLTs, faculty librarians, and others that the PSC has secured an agreement with CUNY to extend the remote work agreement through June 30th, 2024. The agreement provides a framework for agreements between workers and supervisors…
Remote Work Extension Agreement
Dear colleagues, I am writing to let you know that the PSC has secured an agreement with CUNY to extend the remote work agreement through June 30th , 2024. This will affect HEOs, CLTs, faculty librarians, and others. All PSC members share in the union’s fight to protect our working…
Pension Lawsuit
The PSC is suing CUNY on behalf of our members [click here to read lawsuit] because the administration has failed to properly deduct and submit pension contributions for hundreds of PSC members to the city pension systems, leaving our members liable for make-up payments and interest that in some cases…
CUNY must fix its pension mess: City University is being sued by its faculty for not correctly paying into the retirement system
I’m one of the hundreds of faculty and staff at CUNY who’ve learned in recent months that the CUNY administration failed to properly deduct and submit our pension contributions, shorting union members like me tens of thousands of dollars in retirement savings and putting our ability to retire at risk.…
Support for Adjuncts | 100s Rally for City Investment in CUNY
Adjunct Letters of Appointment and Non-Reappointment The deadline by which CUNY adjuncts were required to receive a letter of reappointment or non-reappointment was Monday, May 15. If you are an adjunct who has not received a letter, please notify the union. If you have been notified that you have…
PSC Joins Picket Lines of Striking Writers Guild
PSC Solidarity With Striking Brothers and Sisters at Writers Guild. Thousands of TV and film writers are striking to bring their contract into the 21st century–wages are falling behind, while production companies have been raking in profits generated in good part by the writers’ work. PSC members have been joining our…
CUNY advocates decry budget cuts, push for investment
Faculty, students and elected officials are urging the mayor and the City Council to reverse proposed budget cuts to the City University of New York and instead pump more money into the public university system. Mayor Eric Adams’ budget proposal calls for $41.3 million in annual cuts between fiscal years…
The CUNY Budget Saga Continues: State Increasing Funding While City Funding and Enrollment Decreases
In early February, CUNY issued a memo to the Presidents and Department Heads of all its 25 colleges, ordering each college to issue a hiring freeze and develop a ‘Savings Plan’ that includes a 5-6% cut for programs and activities. Since then, the state has passed its new budget plan…
CUNY Law School Graduates Turn Their Backs to Mayor Adams
If Mayor Eric Adams needed a sign that his commencement speech to law students on Friday was not going to go well, the moment came even before he spoke. As the dean of the City University of New York School of Law, Sudha Setty, introduced the mayor at a Queens…
Dozens rally at CSI, highlighting budget needs and pushing for a New Deal for CUNY
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - “Hey hey, ho ho, austerity has got to go,” chanted dozens students, faculty and staff across a mile route along the College of Staten Island’s Willowbrook campus earlier this week. The march, hosted by the Professional Staff Congress Union, was a call to demand a New…
