Union sues CUNY over pension record failures
The Professional Staff Congress, which represents 30,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York, has sued the public-university system over what the union claims is CUNY’s “repeated failure to deduct and submit employee pension contributions” in a timely manner. CUNY is, by law, required to deduct its…
How to Save a Community College
The City University of New York has long exemplified the teeming possibilities of higher education. Now its devotees are fighting for its survival.
CUNY must fix its pension mess: City University is being sued by its faculty for not correctly paying into the retirement system
I’m one of the hundreds of faculty and staff at CUNY who’ve learned in recent months that the CUNY administration failed to properly deduct and submit our pension contributions, shorting union members like me tens of thousands of dollars in retirement savings and putting our ability to retire at risk.…
CUNY advocates decry budget cuts, push for investment
Faculty, students and elected officials are urging the mayor and the City Council to reverse proposed budget cuts to the City University of New York and instead pump more money into the public university system. Mayor Eric Adams’ budget proposal calls for $41.3 million in annual cuts between fiscal years…
The CUNY Budget Saga Continues: State Increasing Funding While City Funding and Enrollment Decreases
In early February, CUNY issued a memo to the Presidents and Department Heads of all its 25 colleges, ordering each college to issue a hiring freeze and develop a ‘Savings Plan’ that includes a 5-6% cut for programs and activities. Since then, the state has passed its new budget plan…
CUNY Law School Graduates Turn Their Backs to Mayor Adams
If Mayor Eric Adams needed a sign that his commencement speech to law students on Friday was not going to go well, the moment came even before he spoke. As the dean of the City University of New York School of Law, Sudha Setty, introduced the mayor at a Queens…
Dozens rally at CSI, highlighting budget needs and pushing for a New Deal for CUNY
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - “Hey hey, ho ho, austerity has got to go,” chanted dozens students, faculty and staff across a mile route along the College of Staten Island’s Willowbrook campus earlier this week. The march, hosted by the Professional Staff Congress Union, was a call to demand a New…
Elected Leaders Join Hundreds of PSC-CUNY Members & Students Rallying for Investment in CUNY
Hundreds of faculty and staff represented by the Professional Staff Congress, students and CUNY allies joined forces with City Comptroller Brad Lander, Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine, Assembly Member Karines Reyes and members of the New York City Council and New York State Assembly yesterday on the steps of the…
NYC Labor Turns Out for WGA East Members on Strike
Striking Writers Guild of America East members and supporters this week made their voices heard at pickets at Steiner Studios, Silvercup Studios, Broadway Stages, the HBO/Amazon offices in Hudson Yards, and in shutting down on-location shoots around the metro area. The writers are standing strong and the NYC labor movement…
CUNY, elected officials rally against budget cuts
Dozens of students, professors and staff, and elected officials rallied Thursday over budget cuts to the the City University of New York system that they say will make it harder for many students to earn college diplomas.
