Judge’s decision temporarily blocks Aetna Medicare Advantage
Good news in the struggle to preserve high quality health coverage for NYC retirees. On Friday, July 7, Justice Lyle Frank issued a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking the City’s plan to force retired City workers into the Aetna Medicare Advantage Plan. The PSC has consistently taken the position affirmed in…
CUNY Releases Strategic Plan with 2030 Vision
Looking ahead to next school and beyond, the City University of New York (CUNY) announced “CUNY Lifting New York,” a strategic plan that intends to transform CUNY into the nation’s foremost student-centered university system by the end of the decade. The plan, released June 28, outlines four main goals for…
Statement on NYC Budget Announcement
James Davis, PSC CUNY President has the following statement about the NYC budget deal just announced: "The Professional Staff Congress and its members are immensely appreciative of the Council's restoration of $32.4 million in CUNY funding, the majority of the Mayor's recent cuts to community college funding. We also celebrate…
CUNY to expand fully online degree programs: strategic plan
The City University of New York could offer hundreds of fully online programs by 2030, according to the public higher education system’s strategic plan released Wednesday. CUNY set a goal to offer 287 online certificates and degrees in the next several years for students who prefer flexible options because of…
PSC Statement on Primary Election Results
The Professional Staff Congress is happy to report that 12 of the City Council candidates we endorsed in yesterday’s contested Democratic primary races won their elections outright. We congratulate our endorsed candidates on their primary victories and thank the PSC members who participated in the door knocking, phone banking and…
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…
