This Week in the PSC (06.15.15): Two Days to Pass a Bill to Improve CUNY Funding
Albany Lawmakers Have Two Days to Pass a Bill to Improve CUNY Funding If you haven’t yet, please send the PSC’s e-letter urging legislators to support Assembly Bill 5370a/Senate Bill 281a. It would provide future funding for the PSC contract and ensure that tuition hikes go to improve education, not…
This Week in the PSC (05.11.15): Teach in Your T-Shirt Day–Tues., May 12
Tuesday May 12 is “Teach in Your T-Shirt Day.” Help send a strong message to our students and the CUNY administration about what is at stake in this contract. Be a part of “Teach in Your T-Shirt Day” tomorrow, May 12. Hundreds of your colleagues will wear a union t-shirt…
This Week in the PSC (05.06.15): Tuesday, May 12 is “Teach in Your T-Shirt Day.”
Tuesday, May 12 is “Teach in Your T-Shirt Day.” Hundreds of your colleagues now have a union t-shirt that says: “Five Years without a Union Contract Hurts CUNY Students. Ask Me Why.” They’re wearing the t-shirts when they are teaching, counseling or working with students, and when they are meeting…
This Week in the PSC (04.28.15): New Contract Campaign T-Shirts Coming This Week
New Contract Campaign T-Shirts Coming This Week Hundreds of PSC members are wearing contract campaign t-shirts in class and at work. And hundreds more shirts have been reserved and ordered. You can still support the union’s fight for a fair contract with retroactive pay by wearing a t-shirt that says,…
This Week in the PSC (04.20.15): Take our message about the contract directly to students
Take Our Message about the Contract Directly to Students Wear a T-Shirt at Work Hundreds of PSC members now have t-shirts that say, “Five Years without a Union Contract Hurts CUNY Students’’—and on the back: “Ask Me Why.” They're wearing them in class and at work, and talking with CUNY…
This Week in the PSC (04.15.15): Build Student Support for the Contract Fight
Build Student Support for the Contract Fight Wear a T-Shirt at Work Two bargaining sessions are scheduled this week—and we need to see real movement from the CUNY Administration on the union’s contract demands. You can help keep the pressure on the CUNY bosses by clicking here to join the…
This Week in the PSC (04.06.15): Hundreds March to Demand Contract Progress
Hundreds March to Demand Contract Progress Hundreds of PSC members turned out Tuesday, March 31 for a rainy but spirited protest and march outside Hunter College to demand that CUNY management stop stalling at the bargaining table. (See photos.) The CUNY administration has put no money on the table for…
This Week in the PSC (03.18.15): Help Make Retro Pay for PSC's Contract Part of the State Budget Negotiations
Contact your Assembly Representatives Now Help Make Retroactive Pay for the PSC Contract Part of the State Budget Negotiations Funding for the PSC-CUNY contract may depend on budget negotiations taking place right now in Albany. More than 5,000 letters about the contract have been faxed to legislators by PSC members,…
This Week in the PSC (02.18.15): Contract Demands Voiced at Brooklyn Hearing
Keeping the Pressure on CUNY for a Fair Contract Contract Demands Voiced at Brooklyn Hearing Dozens of CUNY faculty and staff turned out to leaflet and testify about the PSC’s contract demands at a CUNY Board of Trustees hearing held at Brooklyn Borough Hall last night (Feb. 17). PSC members…
This Week in the PSC (02.11.15): PSC & CUNY to Albany: Fund A Contract with Raises!
Keep Pressure on CUNY for a Contract Offer Sign Up to Testify or Leaflet at the Board of Trustees Brooklyn Borough Hearing, Tues., Feb 17 Your next chance to show collective support for the union’s contract demands is Tues., Feb. 17, when the CUNY Board holds a public hearing in…