PSC Ad Urges New Yorkers To Tell Their Electeds: Support The New Deal for CUNY
The Professional Staff Congress/CUNY (PSC/CUNY), the union representing 30,000 faculty and professional staff at the City University of New York, launched a digital ad campaign calling on New Yorkers to contact their elected officials to support and fund the New Deal for CUNY (ND4C). The ads, which are…
Save Jobs, Save Lives, Save CUNY…From Itself!
Dear Colleagues, I hope this finds you well. I am writing with updates and actions to advance our priorities as faculty and professional staff as the semester approaches. These include the Governor’s vaccine mandate, other health and safety measures, and efforts to avert class cancellations and adjunct layoffs…
Labor Leaders Urge Governor Hochul to Fund a New Deal for CUNY
Some of New York’s most prominent labor leaders have written to Governor Hochul, urging her to fully fund CUNY’s budget needs and support the New Deal for CUNY legislation. Vincent Alvarez, president of the NYC Central Labor Council, Stuart Appelbaum, president of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store…
PSC Statement on the NYS Executive Budget
Governor Hochul has announced a combined $1.5 billion increase in operating support for CUNY and SUNY over the next five years, including an additional $170 million for CUNY senior colleges next year (briefing book pg 105). It’s heartening to see that Governor Hochul is acting decisively to begin…
Path to a Safer Spring Semester
Spring semester begins January 28. Many members of the CUNY community may be ill with COVID, recovering and isolating after illness, or caring for family members. The path of the omicron variant is not fully predictable. Despite widespread expectation among public health officials that infections may soon subside…
3,200 Faculty and Staff Sign Petition Calling for a Safe Return
President James Davis delivered the Spring Safe Return petition to Chancellor Matos Rodríguez on Thursday, January 6. His letter and a link to the signed petition are below. Dear Chancellor Matos Rodríguez, In December, before the Omicron surge, we discussed the need for the University to provide clear,…
PSC Statement on Governor Hochul's State of the State Address
Released: January 5, 2022 James Davis, president of the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY, the union that represents 30,000 faculty and professional staff at the City University of New York, released the following statement about the State of the State: “We applaud Governor Hochul for championing public higher education as…
New Vaccination Policy from Governor Hochul
Dear Colleagues, Happy New Year! On Friday, Governor Hochul announced that CUNY and SUNY faculty will be required to be vaccinated. As the number of COVID cases in the city and the region surge to unprecedented levels, and increasing hospitalizations burden our health care facilities and their overstretched…
Demand remote work and vaccine mandate from CUNY
December 29, 2021 Dear PSC members, During an unprecedented COVID surge, with case counts breaking every record, many CUNY employees have been required to continue working in person. The two weeks leading up to December 28 saw a 664% increase in infections in New York City. Hospitalization rates…
