This Week in the PSC (09.12.16): Hold CUNY accountable for pay delay!
Hold CUNY accountable for pay delay! It’s time to let Chancellor Milliken and the CUNY trustees know how much hardship has been caused by CUNY management’s failure to act with urgency to pay our raises. Please join President Bowen at the next public hearing of the Board of Trustees and…
This Week in the PSC (09.06.16): Join LIU Faculty to Protest the Lockout |NYC Labor Day Parade this Saturday
January 2017?! CUNY Should Be Embarrassed. CUNY management sent a message last week saying that they are “pleased to announce” pay-dates of October for the ratification bonus and no later than January 2017 for retroactive pay and payment at the new salary rates. President Bowen said they should be embarrassed,…
This Week in the PSC (08.08.16): Contract Ratified by 94%
Contract Ratified by 94% The union announced on August 4 that a record 72% of eligible PSC members voted in the contract ratification vote, and 94% of voters voted “yes.” Read President Bowen’s message to members, and click here for the back pay estimator. PSC in the News AFT: CUNY…
This Week in the PSC (06.24.16): Delegate Assembly Recommends Contract Agreement for Ratification
Delegate Assembly Recommends Contract Agreement for Ratification After a spirited debate, the Delegate Assembly voted last night to submit the tentative contract agreement to the PSC membership for a ratification vote. The vote to recommend ratification of the new contract passed by an overwhelming majority of 111 in favor to…
This Week in the PSC (06.08.16): Albany Must Pass the MOE ASAP
PSC in the News (June) Daily News: Choking CUNY has consequences Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscribers Only): The Travesty of Starving Our Best Public Universities Jacobin Magazine: Degrees of Austerity: Inside the budget crisis affecting the largest urban university in the United States and the half million students it serves.…
Albany Must Pass the MOE ASAP
PSC leaders were in Albany Wednesday, June 8 standing alongside Senate Higher Education Chair Kenneth LaValle and Assembly Higher Education Chair Deborah Glick to call for passage of a true Maintenance of Effort (MOE) for CUNY and SUNY before the end of the legislative session on June 16.…
This Week in the PSC (05.24.16): Daily News Editorial on Contract
The Daily News ran an editorial this weekend: Time for a CUNY contract: Professors must ditch their strike threat, and Gov. Cuomo must step up. It’s over-the-top and takes swipes at the union and others, but it calls on the governor to help fund the contract. It is exceedingly rare…
