State Budget Results | PSC Member Stories HEO Edition
Full-timers working at the state-funded CUNY senior colleges are due to receive the $3000 ratification bonus this Thursday, May 15. Contact the HR office on your campus if you do not receive your bonus. Full-timers at the city funded community colleges will receive their $3000 bonuses on Friday, May 23.…
Testimony from the CUNY Board of Trustees Hearing – May 12, 2025
The CUNY Board of Trustees held its Queens borough hearing at LaGuardia Community College on Monday, May 12, 2025. PSC members provided in-person and written testimony.
PSC condemns CUNY's use of NYPD Strategic Response Group to intimidate and disperse a group of non-violent student protesters at Brooklyn College
In a message sent this evening to CUNY Chancellor Matos Rodríguez and Brooklyn College President Anderson, PSC President James Davis condemned the use of NYPD Strategic Response Group (SRG) to intimidate and disperse a group of roughly 30 non-violent student protesters at the Brooklyn College campus today. May 8,…
The Mayor’s Restoration of CUNY Funding | NYSUT Resolves to Defend Higher Ed
On Thursday, May 1 Mayor Eric Adams announced that all funding for CUNY that was cut by his administration over the past four years would be restored. CUNY’s community colleges, funded largely by the city, have lost nearly 500 full-time positions since Adams took office. The restoration amounts to $96…
Health care pricing must be fair in N.Y.
NY Daily News: The threat of hundreds of millions of dollars of funding cuts to vital health care and medical research programs are a clear and present danger to our health system and the millions of New Yorkers who count on it to keep themselves and their loved ones safe.
City academic unions condemn Trump’s attacks on universities
The Chief: Union leaders gathered outside of City Hall last week to condemn the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education as it withholds federal funds earmarked for university coffers, rescinds research grants and deports students. Leadership of the Professional Staff Congress-CUNY, United Auto Workers Region 9A and Local 1104 of…
Statement on Mayor Adams’ Restoration of CUNY Funding
After Four Years of Struggle CUNY Funding is Restored Mayor Eric Adams announced today the full restoration of funding cut by his administration from the City University of New York over the past four years. It amounts to $96 million in operating money plus $30 million for ASAP, ACE and…
May Day 2025
In NYC, PSC members marched with thousands of workers organized by the NYC Central Labor Council and its 300 local unions. The demonstrators gathered at Foley Square and marched to the Charging Bull statue at Bowling Green. PSC members carried signs that said “Stop the War on Workers” and “Money…
City academic unions condemn Trump’s attacks on universities
The Chief (behind a paywall): Union leaders gathered outside of City Hall last week to condemn the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education as it withholds federal funds earmarked for university coffers, rescinds research grants and deports students. Leadership of the Professional Staff Congress-CUNY, United Auto Workers Region 9A and…
