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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…

Wall Street Journal: Winners and Losers in State Budget Deal

40+ CUNY SUPPORTERS ARRESTED DURING ‘DIE-IN’ AT GOV. CUOMO’S MIDTOWN OFFICE

Previous Pause Next Hundreds More Rally Demanding Cuomo and Legislative Leaders Pass a State Budget that Invests in CUNY Students and Professors New York, March 24, 2016. —“C-U-N-Y Don’t let CUNY die!” was the chant today as 41 CUNY supporters locked arms and lay down blocking the doors…

CUNY USS held a news conference at City Hall Wednesday calling for increased investment in CUNY, a tuition freeze and a fair contract for CUNY faculty and staff. City Council Higher Education Chair Inez Barron was there, along with Brooklyn Borough Chair Eric Adams. PSC Treasurer Sharon Persinger spoke for the PSC, alongside students from USS and NYPIRG. Here’s a video. The event helped frame NY1’s coverage of the City Council budget hearing, which included a quote from this BMCC student.

President Barbara Bowen's Statement on CUNY’s Declaration of Impasse in the PSC-CUNY Contract Negotiations

January 26, 2016 “Having failed to make an economic offer to the union for five years, and having finally offered what amounts to a salary cut, The City University of New York has now claimed that contract negotiations are at an impasse. A declaration of impasse - if…