PSC Members Turned Out and Took May Day Action
Between the citywide mobilization, the CUNY-wide wear red to work action, adjunct speakouts on multiple campuses, art-builds, teach-ins, tabling and petitioning, more than 1600 members took May Day action with the PSC last week.
NYC academic unions demonstrate on May Day, as New School student workers press university
New School Free Press: Academic unions from across New York City converged at 3 p.m. outside The New School’s University Center for a May Day rally. Partway through, members of the New Student Workers Union (NewSWU), faculty, and alumni split off and entered TNS Welcome Center at 72 Fifth Ave.…
‘Hedge fund handout’: Mamdani and Menin push Hochul to claw back $1 billion from Wall Street
Bushwick Daily: Two weeks after winning the state’s first pied-à-terre tax, the mayor is back in Albany with City Council Speaker Julie Menin, going after a Cuomo-era tax break that mostly benefits earners making more than $1 million a year. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is calling it a “hedge fund handout.” Now…
May Day Action All Next Week | New in Clarion
Next week, PSC members will be wearing red, “blitzing” campuses about May Day and union membership, attending local campus events, and marching in the citywide May Day mobilization on Friday, May 1st. It’s part of a nationwide organizing project to unite the labor movement and immigrants rights groups to defend…
Statement on Mayor Mamdani’s Veto of Intro 175-B
PSC/CUNY President James Davis released the following statement on Mayor Mamdani’s Veto of Intro 175-B: “Mayor Mamdani proved himself a champion of students, faculty and staff once again today when he vetoed Intro 175-B. This “buffer zone” legislation would jeopardize First Amendment rights to free expression for all New Yorkers…
Elected Officials Join CUNY Faculty and Staff to Speak-Out on the Health and Safety Crises on Brooklyn CUNY Campuses
Brooklyn elected leaders joined dozens of CUNY faculty and staff represented by the Professional Staff Congress outside Borough Hall on Wednesday, April 22nd to sound the alarm about persistent health and safety crises across the City University of New York campuses.
Faculty Raise Alarm Over Mold, Rat Feces at Brooklyn CUNY Schools
BKReader: Amid chants of "Hot, cold, rats, mold! CUNY this is getting old," CUNY staff members, who rallied in front of Brooklyn Borough Hall, say students and faculty have gotten rashes and itchy eyes as classrooms crumble around them. About two dozen faculty and staff members rallied Wednesday to denounce…
CUNY staff, local leaders rally in Downtown Brooklyn over unsafe building conditions
News 12 Brooklyn: CUNY staff and local leaders rallied on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall Wednesday to sound the alarm about unsafe conditions at their buildings. Staff members say they deal with things like holes in the ceiling, mold, leaks and more. The group is calling on CUNY and…
From mold to malfunctions, CUNY conditions come under scrutiny
NY1: CUNY faculty and staff say repair problems at their schools aren’t isolated — they’re happening across the City University of New York system. Several dozen staff members rallied outside Brooklyn Borough Hall on Wednesday, joined by elected leaders, to call out what they described as unsafe conditions following years…
Unions urge veto of buffer zone bill
The Chief: Leaders of local community groups and unions representing education workers reiterated their call for Mayor Zohran Mamdani to veto a bill that critics warn would stifle free speech across the city. City Council bill 175-B, which tasks the NYPD with creating a plan to erect “security perimeters” around…
