This Week in the PSC (04.26.16): Show Your Support for the Strike Authorization
Show Your Support for the Strike Authorization The PSC’s strike authorization vote is scheduled for May 2-11. Click here to learn more about how to vote by mail, by phone or online. Send your reason for voting yes to [email protected], or share it yourself with the hashtag #CUNYStrikeAuth. You can…
This Week in the PSC (04.18.16): Pledge to Vote Yes
Strike Authorization Vote May 2-11 Pledge to Vote Yes Last week President Bowen sent a message to members describing the union’s plan for reaching an acceptable contract settlement. In the message, she announced the dates of the PSC’s strike authorization vote (May 2-11) and urged members to “give the union…
This Week in the PSC (04.11.16): NYT Editorial
In the News: April 11 In an editorial published today, the New York Times addresses rumors of a planned CUNY-SUNY merger, which surfaced during the State budget negotiations. The editorial, Don’t Dilute CUNY’s Urban Mission, notes that the merger idea reappeared this year in news reports related to the proposal…
This Week in the PSC (04.06.16): State Budget Response and Analysis
State Budget Response and Analysis The State budget passed last week without a half-billion dollar shift in CUNY funding from the State to the City, but also without funding for PSC members’ back pay and without funding to offset the tuition freeze. In her message to members, President Bowen said…
This Week in the PSC (03.16.16): CUNY Writers Against Austerity
CUNY Writers Against Austerity A reading In Defense of CUNY More than fifty writers of poetry and fiction will take a stand against the continued fiscal starvation of CUNY this Sunday, March 20 from 4-7 p.m. at Cooper Union's Great Hall (7 East 7th Street). It will be the largest…
This Week in the PSC (03.08.16): #CUNYrising Rally, March and Meeting
#CUNYrising Rally, March and Meeting—Thurs., Mar. 10, 5 PM New Yorkers are mobilizing to defend their university. A coalition of 25 community, student, religious, and labor groups has been forming in response to the proposed cuts to CUNY, the planned tuition increase, and the failure to resolve CUNY contracts. The…
This Week in the PSC: (02.29.16) #CUNYRising Rally | Send a Letter to Albany
This Week in the PSC/PSC in the News: #CUNYRising Rally │Send a Letter to Albany In the News This morning, WNYC ran a segment focused on state disinvestment in CUNY and the PSC-CUNY contract. In it, both President Bowen and Chancellor Milliken emphasized the need for a contract that will…
This Week in the PSC (02.02.16): Why Impasse? Why Now?
PSC in the News Here is the newspaper and blog coverage of the Union’s response to CUNY’s Impasse Declaration: AFT News, The Chief (paywall), Kings County Politics, Metro, PoliticoNY, PoliticoNY (Pro), Staten Island Advance (front page), Times Union. Sharon Persinger, treasurer of the PSC, is a guest on this episode…
This Week in the PSC (02.02.16): Why Impasse? Why Now?
PSC in the News Here is the newspaper and blog coverage of the Union’s response to CUNY’s Impasse Declaration: AFT News, Kings County Politics, Metro, PoliticoNY, PoliticoNY (Pro), Staten Island Advance (front page), Times Union. Sharon Persinger, treasurer of the PSC, is a guest on this episode of “The Radical…
