This Week in the PSC (9.3.11): CUNY Announces it Will Seek Funding for Adjunct Health Care
CUNY Announces it Will Seek Funding for Adjunct Health Care As hundreds of PSC members protested inside and outside last Monday’s (9/26/11) Board of Trustees meeting, CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein announced that the University will seek funding for adjunct health insurance in its upcoming State budget request. Visit our website…
This Week in the PSC (9.26.11):Tell the CUNY Board: CUNY Must Fund Adjunct Health Insurance
Tell the CUNY Board: CUNY Must Fund Adjunct Health Insurance The union will be out in force today (Sept. 26) at the CUNY Board of Trustees meeting at Baruch College. We’ll be there voicing our urgent demand that CUNY fund adjunct health insurance—before 1,700 of our friends and colleagues lose…
This Week in the PSC (9.19.11): September 26th Demonstration for Adjunct Health Insurance
September 26th Demonstration for Adjunct Health Insurance Next Monday, September 26, at 4:00 PM hundreds of your CUNY colleagues will gather at the CUNY Board of Trustees meeting at Baruch College. Please join us in attending the Board meeting and demonstrating outside of Baruch College (55 Lexington Ave. at 24th…
This Week in the PSC (9.12.11): Do the Right Thing, CUNY!
Do the Right Thing, CUNY! That’s the message we’ll deliver at 4:00 PM on Monday, September 26 when we rally at the CUNY Board of Trustees meeting at Baruch College. Please join us as we demand that CUNY provide a permanent structural solution to the crisis in adjunct health insurance…
Tell Your Senators: Support Social Security by co-sponsoring the "Keeping Our Social Security Promise Act."
SIGN THE PETITION! Social Security is under attack by people who want us to believe the myth that it's about to run out of money. Although it's on course to be fully solvent for over 25 years, we're told by people who fundamentally don't believe in the program that the…
This Week in the PSC (9.6.11): Solidarity at CUNY!
Solidarity at CUNY! Speak up for Adjunct Health Insurance Add your voice to demand a permanent structural solution to the crisis in adjunct health insurance before 1,700 colleagues lose their coverage. The campaign is growing, but we need your help too. Take a moment right now and take action—here’s what…
This Week in the PSC (8.30.11): Save Adjunct Healthcare! Join the Growing Campaign.
Save Adjunct Healthcare! Join the Growing Campaign. The union’s public campaign to press CUNY to live up to its basic responsibility of funding health insurance for all eligible adjuncts is growing, but it has to get even bigger—before 1,700 of our colleagues lose their coverage! The PSC remains willing and…
This Week in the PSC (8.8.11): In solidarity with Verizon workers
In solidarity with Verizon workers—sign the petition 45,000 CWA and IBEW members are now on strike to stop Verizon’s attempt to gut their contract. Despite record profits, Verizon is demanding concessions that would let them outsource more jobs, slash sick days and holidays, eliminate benefits for injured workers, and cut…
This Week in the PSC (8.2.11): Court Order Holds Up CUNY Tuition Hike; Full Board of Trustees to Vote August 3rd
Court Order Holds Up CUNY Tuition Hike; Full Board of Trustees to Vote August 3rd In response to a lawsuit filed by three Lehman College students, a state Supreme Court judge signed an order blocking the $300 tuition increase passed by the Executive Committee of the CUNY Board of Trustees…
This Week in the PSC (7.25.11): CUNY to Hike Tuition $300
CUNY to Hike Tuition $300 Last Thursday, the CUNY Trustees approved a resolution calling for $150 per semester tuition hikes for full-time students at senior and community colleges. Read PSC’s statement and find links to a video of the vote and audio of student and faculty testimony. Defend Social Security…
