New York City’s FY26 Budget Begins to Right the Ship for CUNY Community Colleges
When Mayor Adams cut CUNY’s community colleges at the start of the pandemic, PSC members, our allies in the City Council, the People’s Plan, CUNY Rising Alliance, alongside students and community members, pushed to restore and grow CUNY’s budget. After cuts of $96 million and more than 500 full-time jobs…
PSC, higher-ed unions slam federal research funding cuts
The Chief: Researchers at the city and state’s public universities affected by cuts to federal grant funding urged the state’s congressional leaders to oppose further cuts to funding proposed in President Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” Members of the Professional Staff Congress, the New York State United Teachers and other higher-education…
US STEM Students Are Struggling. Slashing Federal Research Funds Will Set Them Back Further | Opinion
Newsweek: STEM degrees provide good pay and job security for students who earn them, and they are essential to U.S. competitiveness in the global economy. However, most U.S. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) majors leave college without a STEM degree.
LI medical research, higher education hurt by budget cuts
Newsday: As the Senate considers President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill against the backdrop of draconian cuts in National Institutes of Health-funded medical research and higher education, Long Islanders will confront the impact of these decisions on our well-being and environment. As health professionals, researchers and professors of public…
PSC Statement on the Results of the NYC Democratic Primary
Statement from James Davis, President, PSC/CUNY on the results of the New York City Democratic Primary June 25, 2025 This election cycle shows PSC’s growing political strength as early supporters of a strategy to defeat former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic Primary for Mayor. The union endorsed a two…
Tell your Reps in D.C. to Reject the Budget Reconciliation Bill
Congress is finalizing an extreme, harmful federal budget bill that should concern all PSC members. It cuts healthcare and food assistance, makes higher education more expensive, and punishes students, patients and working families to ensure the rich get even richer. Our national affiliate, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), is…
Endorsements in the 2025 New York City comptroller race
City & State: In an election where there is not much daylight policy-wise between the two leading candidates, the race to be New York City’s next comptroller has become one focused on coalition building. Though Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine has a much deeper war chest than City Council Finance…
“No Kings” Seeded a Mass Movement Against Trump, Backed by Labor
In These Times: Millions of demonstrators across the country came out into the streets on June 14 at more than 2,000 protests in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Organizers estimated that the mobilization, called “No Kings Day of Defiance,” drew at least five million people nationwide, which would make…
Nonprofits, grassroots groups, unions denounce Trump admin on ‘No Kings Day’
City & State: As nearly 50,000 protesters took to the streets across New York City for “No Kings Day” on Saturday, grassroot organizations, unions and nonprofits were among those leading the outcry against the Trump administration. Coinciding with a Flag Day military parade and the president’s birthday in Washington D.C.,…
