Proposed Emblem GHI Replacement
Dear PSC member, The NYC Office of Labor Relations announced an agreement on August 28 with Municipal Labor Committee (MLC) representatives on a replacement of the current comprehensive health benefits plan (CBP). The current CBP, provided by Emblem Health (GHI) and Anthem, enrolls roughly ¾ of the city’s active employees…
NYC Labor Day Parade Tomorrow | Proposed Emblem GHI Replacement
The annual New York City Labor Day Parade will be held TOMORROW, Saturday, September 6. PSC members will march to resist the Trump Administration’s attacks on our civil liberties, institutions and democracy. We’ll have signs, banners, bagels and coffee. Be there and bring your friends and family. One of the…
In New York City, immigrants more likely to be unionized, report finds (Paywall)
The Chief: Foreign-born workers in New York City are more likely to be union members than workers born in the United States, according to a recent report from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies. In the 18 months ending this June, naturalized immigrants had a 22.3 percent unionization…
Endorsements, Immigrant Solidarity, Adjunct Pay Dates
For the Fall 2025 semester, teaching adjuncts are scheduled to be paid on eight successive adjunct pay dates. At the senior colleges, the first pay date is Thursday, September 4 and the last pay date will be Thursday, December 11. At most community colleges, the first pay date will be…
Welcome Back to Fall Semester, Raises, and the Fight against Fascism
Dear Colleagues, Welcome back to the 2025-2026 academic year! I hope you had a restorative summer despite the exceedingly difficult times we are living through, including attacks on universities, the social safety net, vulnerable populations of all kinds, and the rule of law itself. Times like these remind us how…
PSC’s Davis demands CUNY end ‘perennial’ problem of late adjunct pay
The Chief: In a letter sent last week, Professional Staff Congress–CUNY (PSC) President James Davis said adjuncts — who teach the majority of courses at the university — continue to face “financial stress and disrespect” when their first fall semester paychecks arrive late. “On-time pay should be a given at…
CUNY Professors Fight Back
Indypendent: When S, a faculty member at Brooklyn College opened an email from HR in June, the last thing she thought was that she was going to be let go from her position as adjunct professor. “I had been scheduled by my department to teach two classes in the fall,…
Can Zohran Mamdani Fix New York’s Public Education?
Jacobin: In this exclusive interview, organizer, union activist, and professor at John Jay College, Nivedita Majumdar, discusses the potential challenges to realizing Mamdani’s platform. These include barriers to funding, connections between education and climate, and the roles of civil society and union advocacy. Drawing lessons from historical city governance, she explains…
Retroactive Pay | 150+ Rally at Brooklyn College
Wage increases up to the April 1, 2024 level began to appear in the August 1st paychecks for all eligible employees paid by the city. Retroactive pay covering the period beginning March 1, 2023, will arrive for eligible members paid by the city on August 15. For all eligible employees…
New York City’s Labor Movement Is United In Opposition To Attacks On Their Communities
Harlem World: New York City’s labor movement is united in sounding the alarm about the Department of Homeland Security’s plan to “flood the zone” to intimidate, harass and racially profile immigrants across our city. We are deeply disturbed by ICE’s escalating tactics of targeting immigrants at courthouses, denying residents’ due…
